Raccoon in Wine Costume This hand-stitched dress is made

This hand-stitched dress is made from shimmery pink Japanese paper

with rayon floss adding shine to the strands of beads

This pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread

The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia

And who can resist a name like that

Raccoon in Wine Costume This hand-stitched dress is madeI couldnt call myself a Torontonian if I didnt have a raccoon in my collection. It was surprisingly difficult to find a historic illustration of a raccoon that looked right, until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty looking) specimen in the 1918 book Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom. The raccoon is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper,