Hawksbill Turtle in Blue & Silver Fronds 18th century dress with stiffer skirts and elaborately

with stiffer skirts and elaborately puffed sleeves

Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'

Based on an American dress from the Wexler & Abraham [Wechsler & Abraham] department store in Brooklyn

My little paper darlings are based on a 1792 illustration from Bewick’s ‘A General History of Quadrupeds’

The sleeves are in the ‘gigot’ or leg o’ mutton style coveted by Anne Shirley

Hawksbill Turtle in Blue & Silver Fronds 18th century dress with stiffer skirts and elaboratelyHawksbill turtles are very serious creatures. They like to pontificate, and can often be found lecturing nests of younger turtles. Or older turtles. Any turtles, really. They are the professors of the turtle world. Based on a 1754 illustration of Testudo caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle) from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. The turtle is 4. 5 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which