What’s a douwing? It’s a kind of fish, apparently, and there are a gazillion of them in Renard’s book. What kind of fish is it? I don’t know! It’s a Dutch name, I think? (Most of the names of the fish on the plates are in Dutch; I only admire the pretty pictures, and skipped the text.) In any case, I liked the idea of a pattern of fish of similar shapes and their many colors. It’s a smaller scaled pattern and I ended up thinking it might work for wallpaper in a bathroom maybe? But if you wanted it scaled up, I could do that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fish and other sealife taken from Louis Renard\u2019s 1754 book of fish and sea life from the Indian Ocean, Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l\u2019on trouve autour des isles Moluques et sur les c\u00f4tes des terres Australes: peints d\u2019apr\u00e8s nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The images used in this pattern are taken from the copy at Harvard\u2019s Museum of Comparative Zoology, viewable at the Biodiversity Heritage Library: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5962\/bhl.title.115425<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The background colors on the Spoonflower fabrics are coordinated across the entire collection, so if you wanted a pink background for the black fish and for the blue fish, for example, the pinks are the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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