Dress #004: Victorian dress in black, lime and pale rose 1920s and 1930s dress stitched by hand on 5x7

stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book ‘Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools’

which is why it appears to stick straight out at the back

is made from Japanese paper accented with a glass bead on the sleeve

Dress #004: Victorian dress in black, lime and pale rose 1920s and 1930s dress stitched by hand on 5x7The dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper), and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper; the dress design is from Lord & Taylor's 'Dresses and Bonnets and Ribbons' (1870). The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall. Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper.