Who wouldn't want to live in a miniature zoo full of tiny weird and wonderful animals? I visited Top Drawer in London's Olympia yesterday and was fascinated by these creations by Japanese needle felt artist Terumi Ohta aka "True Style Lab" as part of the brilliant new area for designer makers called CRAFT.
Smooth on the inside...crunchy on the outside
The patience and skill of hand needle felting is the perfect way to capture the colours and the textures of a spider's hairs giving this super little tarantula a lifelike appearance.
This little fellow looks preserved in a pre-historic environment as your own pet dinky dino in a bubble.
Hand made clay teeth are painstaking made and indiviually inserted for as their creator Terumi says, for her; "It's all in the details".
Here is my favourite of Terumi's art pieces, I really wish I could have taken this beautiful cub home with me but hopefully I can visit it if she will exhibit more of her menagerie soon!
Have a look at more of Terumi's work online at WWW.TRUESTYLELAB.COM who was exhibiting at Top Drawer London as part of the new specialist makers area called CRAFT