Viavi San Francisco Capsules Cannister Kilkenny Desin and Binney & Smith

and Binney & Smith

I have so much to learn about textiles and weaving traditions

with a bit of yellow paint where the handle meets the head

I just love the graphics on the vintage watercolor boxes

happy perched most anywhere or carried in a pocket as a good luck charm

Viavi San Francisco Capsules Cannister Kilkenny Desin and Binney & SmithThe purpose of Viavi Capsules, in a wooden canister with a wonderful label c. 1920s or earlier, is a bit of a mystery. Viavi, based in San Francisco, produced a number of different products, most of which seem to have had to do with women's health, though even in their day the company owned by real estate magnates Herbert and Hartland Law seems to have been quite elusive about what their products did exactly. These capsules were intended as a vaginal