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and is based on an American dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly' (vol
it is hand stitched in cotton floss onto cold-pressed 100% cotton paper
offered for sale by Augusta Auctions in 2022
This hand stitched Victorian paper dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads
Hippopotamus in Lilac 18th century dress and is based on 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
