Swan in white with pale coloured fibres Burlesque and this stack comes from

and this stack comes from my china cabinet

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

and train are in ecru

and I re-interpreted it in glass beads

Swan in white with pale coloured fibres Burlesque and this stack comes fromThis swan is based on an illustration of Der Schwan 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