Harpy in Gold Dots on Purple Victorian dress and stenciled cotton

and stenciled cotton

Hand embroidered lines imitate the folds of the skirt

This hand-stitched brown Regency dress

from the January 1923 issue of ‘Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des Arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme’

with tiny shell shapes standing in for the applique along the bottom of the dress

Harpy in Gold Dots on Purple Victorian dress and stenciled cottonThis slightly terrifying, yet also adorable harpy is based on an illustration from John Jonstons Natural History of Birds, the sixth volume of his epic Natural history of the quadrupeds published between 1650 and 1652. She 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 hang on your wall. Materials: Japanese paper, glass bead,