Platypus in Pink with Flowers

Some animals are more trouble than others; it’s taken me years to get a platypus design that I was happy with. This is based on an illustration from Richard Lydekker & Philip Lutley Sclater’s ‘The Royal Natural History’ from 1893.

The platypus is 4.75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall.

Materials: Nepalese and Japanese papers, glass bead, and cotton floss on cotton paper.