Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear This hand-stitched paper dress is

This hand-stitched paper dress is based a cotton day dress from the late 1910s

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

held by the Museum at FIT (accession P85

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

The dress in made from orange-red papers

Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear This hand-stitched paper dress isOne 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