House Mouse in Purple Flowers Costume Hawksbill turtles are very serious

Hawksbill turtles are very serious creatures

This hand-stitched paper Edwardian dress is made from pale pink Japanese paper

1951 book ‘Practice and science of standard barbering

The original dress uses a variation of the ‘metacircle’ technique

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a green wool mohair sheath made by Charles James in 1952-1953 as a sample for New York ready-to-wear manufacturer Samuel Winston

House Mouse in Purple Flowers Costume Hawksbill turtles are very seriousGrowing 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,