Ostrich in pink flowers on blue Morels This hand-stitched paper afternoon suit

This hand-stitched paper afternoon suit is made from a pearly yellow Japanese paper accented with blue trim and yellow beads

stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny glass beads

the circular hole forms the waist

but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration

129) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

Ostrich in pink flowers on blue Morels This hand-stitched paper afternoon suitThis 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