Hawksbill Turtle in Florentine Wine & Orange VAM stitched by hand on 100%

stitched by hand on 100% cotton watercolour paper

designed by Michele Clapton

by Pickett of Saville Row

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession C

lavish embroidery

Hawksbill Turtle in Florentine Wine & Orange VAM stitched by hand on 100%Hawksbill turtles are very serious creatures. They like to pontificate, and can often be found lecturing nests of younger turtles. Or older turtles. Any turtles, really. They are the professors of the turtle world. Based on a 1754 illustration of Testudo caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle) from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. The turtle is 4. 5 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which