Swan in strawberries on black Whale Miss Firbank would have been

Miss Firbank would have been a contemporary of Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary Crawley

pale green mizutama tissue layered over a shimmering pale green paper to give depth to the colour

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

'The history of fashion in France

Swan in strawberries on black Whale Miss Firbank would have beenThis swan is based on an illustration of Der Schwan from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on