Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Penguin while the trim is an

while the trim is an Italian paper

This was the first time I layered my papers

shiny blue rayon fibres embedded in the surface of the darker paper provide a contrast to the lush feathered texture of the paler blue

and accented with glass beads

This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gown is based on a French evening dress designed by Paul Poiret between 1912-1914

Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Penguin while the trim is anOne 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