Moose in blue and silver filigree Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets held by the Metropolitan Museum

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

They can be found happily hanging out (though you wouldn’t know it to look at them) in shallow lagoons

The original is made from a brocaded moiré silk with pink

Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

The Museum itself identifies this as having been worn by the donor

Moose in blue and silver filigree Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets held by the Metropolitan MuseumBased on an 1881 illustration of the Male moose from The Antelope and Deer of America: A Comprehensive Treatise Upon the Natural History, Including the Characteristics, Habits, Affinities, and Capacity for Domestication of the Antilocapra and Cervidae of North America. The moose is 3. 25 inches tall, stitched 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