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Ancient Grove: Fairy wear for Dryads as delicate as atumn leaves!

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Ancient Grove is an etsy store where you will find accessories, jewelry, clothing and costumes inspired by the natural world and the unseen, ethereal creatures that inhabit it. What really calls your attention immediately is that all items seems to follow the same designing line and use the same forest and natural colors, using high quality fabric and looking delicate as the leaves selves. Most of her items are made of dupioni silk. Dupioni silk is usually made with two different colors of warp and weft. The color of the weft is much more prominent, while the color of the warp shows when the fabric moves and catches the light. Above: Silk fairy wings

 

Faux branches wings for nymphs and dryads

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"Every time a fairy is born in a tree it becomes a dryad" Dryads and forest nymphs are one of my favourite topics overall... and they're often portrays as part tree with leaves and branches. This is a drawing I made myslef of one dryad... of course anything with leaves, green wigs, leave pendants and other extras will help, and we'll cover that in precision very soon... but today I wanted to share specifically these lovely wings I found and that would fit so well your forest nymph design.