1916 shoe in red with silver dots Moose Metallic blue tissue stands in

Metallic blue tissue stands in for the beadworked panels of the original

Based on an 1804 illustration of Ursus Maritimus / L’Ours Polaire from ‘La Ménagerie Du Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle Ou Description Et Histoire Des Animaux Qui Y Vivent Et Qui Y Ont Vécu’

and the tradition continued with Nana giving me my first teacups when I was a little girl

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’

other Japanese paper

1916 shoe in red with silver dots Moose Metallic blue tissue stands inThese four button shoes are from an Edwardian design. Available in a variety of colours and papers, they feature sequins and glass beads. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey. Or shoes. Or Downton Abbey shoes. The original shoe, from ca. 1916, was manufactured by A. E. Little & Co. of Massachusetts and is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 1423). The shoe is 3. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour