Recycled fabric Butterfly Brooch (Redivivus Papilio Fibulam)

As a way of using those small yet beautiful pieces of fabric that inevitably starts piling up, I created these butterfly brooches. I carefully select each piece so that it will make a beautiful pattern on the butterfly’s wings. (In its former reincarnation this butterfly was fabric scraps from a charity shop in Bristol. I have seen the same fabrics made into jewellery from another local designer, so I think my butterfly might have some other jewellery family somewhere in the world…)