House Mouse in Purple Flowers Costume and 9 yards of embroidery’

and 9 yards of embroidery’

stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercoloour paper

This hand-stitched paper Edwardian dress is made from pale pink Japanese paper

Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

1951 book ‘Practice and science of standard barbering

House Mouse in Purple Flowers Costume and 9 yards of embroidery’Growing up, mice were my favourite animal. A birthday or Christmas didnt go by without someone getting me a mouse of some sort jewellery, stuffed animals, porcelain figurines. It may seem surprising that it has taken me this long to make a stitched paper mouse, but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration. I finally found it in Richard Lydekker & Philip Lutley Sclaters The Royal Natural History from 1893. The mouse is 4. 75 inches across,