Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton

Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

The four Callot sisters opened their first salon in Paris

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on the ‘Balloon’ at-home dress in black silk faille

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear Materials: Nepalese paper and cottonOne 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