House Mouse in Pink Flowers on Buff McCord it is stitched onto cold-pressed

it is stitched onto cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

or using custom dress forms that combined the measurements of his customer with the fanciful contours used to sculpt the dresses into the desired shapes

created around 1912-1913

summer 1890 catalogue

It is made from black chiyogami (Japanese) paper that is accented with a pattern of gold twigs

House Mouse in Pink Flowers on Buff McCord it is stitched onto cold-pressedGrowing 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,