Hippopotamus in Red & Pink Strawberries Met is made from a shimmery

is made from a shimmery Japanese paper

made from Jacquard-woven silk in a floral design

The design is based on an a tailored suit from Linker Co

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

chosen to echo the silk velvet of the original

Hippopotamus in Red & Pink Strawberries Met is made from a shimmeryOne 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