Butterflies made before 2009
Aglais (Inachis) io (Linnaeus, 1758), or the European Peacock, more commonly known simply as the Peacock butterfly, is found in Europe, temperate Asia as far east as Japan.It is named in honour of nymph Io, the daughter of Ancient Greek river god Inachus.
The span of its wings is 5-7 cm.
This bead butterfly is loomed of 15 colours in 2009.
Graellsia isabellae (Graells, 1849) or Spanish Moon Silkmoth inhabits Spanish mountains. Its wingspan is 7,5-8 cm.
This bead moth is loomed and woven of 7 colours.
Morpho cypris (Westwood, 1851) got its name after Cypris, or Aphrodite, the Ancient Greek goddess of beauty.
Morpho Cypris inhabits South America. It is found in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. The wingpsan of this butterfly is about 10-15 cm.
Morpho butterflies have metallic shimmering shades of blue and green on dorsal side of their wings. Such colouration is a result not of pigmentation but of iridescence. So, the colours we see vary with viewing angle, they may change from ligth cyan to deep green from pale pink to dark violet in the same place.
Thus two wings of one Morpho butterfly almost always look different.
This bead butterfly is loomed of 8 colours in 2006.
Morpho menelaus (Linnaeus, 1758), or the Menelaus Blue Morpho is found in Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica and Venezuela.Its wingspan is about 138 mm.
The bead butterfly is woven of 5 colours in 2001, my first year of weaving bead butterflies.