Teacup in Silver & Turquoise Mid-century dress Materials: Korean paper and cotton

Materials: Korean paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

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

Based on an 1811 illustration of The Great Anteater from ‘The Natural History of Quadrupeds

as it differs from the swags of fabric often found all over Victorian bustle dresses (although I love those

Materials: Japanese chiyogami paper

Teacup in Silver & Turquoise Mid-century dress Materials: Korean paper and cottonThis teacup design is from my own collection, a Paragon China Co. teacup and saucer from the 1950s or 1960s. My mother, aunt, and Nana all had large collections of mismatched teacups, and the tradition continued with Nana giving me my first teacups when I was a little girl. I have continued to collect them, and I looked through my entire collection to find the perfect shape to make these paper teacups and saucers. The teacup is 4 inches wide, stitched