I first saw Tamar Mogendorff’s work at the amazing shop Tiny McSmall where they carry a selection of her fabric birdhouses. Her website is like a brilliant cabinet of wonders filled with all manner of natural artifacts recreated in vintage fabrics, linen, knotted string and beads. While the fauna are spectacular, it’s the flora I love - forest mushrooms with their wild little roots, sprigs of branching coral, tubers sprouting in mason jars and heartbreakingly detailed pine cones.

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