Jackalope in purple & gold Platypus Materials: Japanese & Thai kozo

Materials: Japanese & Thai kozo papers

Glass beads decorate the skirt as well as the left shoulder

silk ribbon

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on the dinner dress created by Charles James in 1952

Jackalope in purple & gold Platypus Materials: Japanese & Thai kozoOne of the first things I ever embroidered was an image of two horned rabbits from Johann Daniel Meyers 1752 Representations of all kinds of animals with their skeletons. It was the illustration I came back to when I decided to stitch some paper jackalopes. These little creatures are 3. 25 inches tall, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to