House Mouse in Green Leaves on Red Pinup dress This brain is based on

This brain is based on a 1918 illustration titled ‘Scheme showing the connections of the several parts of the brain’ from Henry Gray’s ‘Anatomy of the Human Body’

cut from paper and stitched by hand

75 inches across

with silver tissue on the bodice and an overlay of Japanese tissue to imitate the sheer layer of silk tulle on the original

House Mouse in Green Leaves on Red Pinup dress This brain is based onGrowing 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,