Hippopotamus in Yellow & White 1920s and 1930s dress This hand-stitched pink Regency dress

This hand-stitched pink Regency dress is made from Japanese paper with a pearlized filigree pattern and accented with glass beads on the sleeves

Rich black Nepalese paper is trimmed with bronze Japanese paper and accented with glass beads

cotton floss

or Common Hedgehog) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

Being an Edition of The Essentials of Anatomy

Hippopotamus in Yellow & White 1920s and 1930s dress This hand-stitched pink Regency dressOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The