House Mouse in Blue Paisley 1970s man the dress also includes a

the dress also includes a tassel hanging from a trio of beads

25 inches tall

the sixth volume of his epic ‘Natural history of the quadrupeds’ published between 1650 and 1652

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1980

hand-stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper

House Mouse in Blue Paisley 1970s man the dress also includes 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,