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The faint shimmer of handmade purple Japanese papers evokes the silk crepe of the underdress and silk velvet of the tabard
It is made from black chiyogami (Japanese) paper that is accented with a pattern of gold twigs
Accurately Coloured from Nature
It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s
Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Parasol The faint shimmer of handmadeOne 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
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