Elephant in Florentine wine & orange 1920s and 1930s dress One of my favourite things

One of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions

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

Materials: Chiyogami and other Japanese papers

Materials: Japanese & Korean papers

also based on men’s clothing

Elephant in Florentine wine & orange 1920s and 1930s dress One of my favourite thingsBased 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.