House Mouse in Green Leaves on Red Hedgehog held by the Victoria and

held by the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession T

This pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession C

so it’s suspected that Wilhelm misidentified the little gastropod

House Mouse in Green Leaves on Red Hedgehog held by the Victoria andGrowing 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,