Ostrich in pink and silver LACMA The design is based on

The design is based on a British dress from 1885

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper featuring red poppies and green leaves on a black background

where this fibre was cultivated and processed

both as a ballgown

Based on an 1824 illustration of the Giraffe femelle from ‘Histoire Naturelle Des Mammifères : Avec Des Figures Originales

Ostrich in pink and silver LACMA The design is based onThis ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on land and in