Elephant in Florentine wine & orange 1920s and 1930s dress overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermark

overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue and accented with silver

metallic thread

I’ve used a shimmering brown decorative paper to stand in for the brown silk faille of the dress

Materials: Japanese & Korean papers

held by the Victoria & Albert (accession T

Elephant in Florentine wine & orange 1920s and 1930s dress overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermarkBased on an 1890 illustration of Afrikanische Elefant (African Elephant) from Meyers Konversations Lexikon: Eine Encyklopadie Des Allgemeinen Wissens. The elephant is 4. 75 inches tall, stitched by hand by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall. Materials: Italian paper, glass bead, and cotton floss on cotton paper.