House Mouse in Purple Flowers Costume The original dress uses a

The original dress uses a variation of the ‘metacircle’ technique

1951 book ‘Practice and science of standard barbering

while the sleeves are in a metallic Japanese paper in a purpled bronze shade

Hawksbill turtles are very serious creatures

and 9 yards of embroidery’

House Mouse in Purple Flowers Costume The original dress uses aGrowing 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,