The leaf with a seam

The colour-remastered tailor-bird engraving depicts the folded leaf and its attachment to the branch. Wood describes soft nesting material placed inside this leaf envelope.

A seam in a leaf

A leaf still hangs from its twig. Look closer: its sides have been drawn together around a hidden nest.

Follow the construction from outside to inside: a living leaf, holes pierced at its edges, plant fibre drawing those edges together, then a soft nest within. Wood describes examples made from one leaf and from several. Source: Homes Without Hands, physical PDF pages 239–241; tailor-bird engraving on page 240, colour remastered by Pandi. The same plate accompanies four reading steps, without an invented needle or added cutaway. Colour remasters are modern artistic interpretations.

The leaf with a seam

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