1760s shoe in blue roses 18th century dress This hand-stitched paper dress is

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on an English evening dress from ca

So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong

until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty-looking) specimen in the 1918 book ‘Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom’

and is hand stitched on cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

1760s shoe in blue roses 18th century dress This hand-stitched paper dress isThis elegant woman's shoe is based on a design from the 1760s; the originals were of painted kid leather. Mine features a buckle in metallic paper, embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones, each one carefully stitched on by hand. The original shoe is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession 270&A 1891). The shoe is 3. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any