Laser-engraved bottle

Absinthe, La Fée Verte, The Green Fairy. So-called because late Victorians drank this stuff and claimed to have hallucinations. In truth, it was likely that the hallucinations, if any, were caused by toxic chemicals put in the drink to turn it as green as possible. Thujone was thought to be a psychoactive compound found in wormwood, a key ingredient in absinthe, but this has since been debunked: thujone is not psychoactive.

Anyway, I mashed up some art from the Internet, and engraved it onto a bottle using the Trotec laser.

Here are the TIF files at 1000 dpi in case you want to make your own bottle:

The sources were:

• Twig border (Aubrey, The National and Domestic History of England, v. 2, 1878)
• Robette Absinthe ad (1896)
• akaArcade font (licensed for personal use only, no commercial use)
• Ringlet font
• Eccentric std font — I think this comes with Adobe
• I think the lines in the directions came from here.

Tags: absinthe, laser, steampunk, trotec