Fiber sculpture & botanical jewellery
Each moth is a sustained act of close observation made physical — embodied in the finest fibres, needle-felted and meticulously assembled by hand. Lichen and moss gathered from the woodland floor, shaped into a wearable yet fragile form.
View the collection"I spent five years studying moths in a laboratory. Now I make them by hand, and somehow feel even closer to them."
I'm Lina — entomologist, fibre artist, and lifelong observer of the insect world. Every sculpture is rooted in years of careful observation and a lifetime of making things by hand.
"Each wing vein, each scale pattern — I try to recreate them in a form you can hold in your hands, wear, and keep close."
Materials
Wool, silk, synthetic fibre, glass, wire, dyes, clay, preserved botanicals
Lead time
Up to 4 weeks per commission
Origin
Handmade in Czech Republic
Commission deposit
30% via PayPal to begin your order
You will be redirected to PayPal to complete your payment.
About
Five years in the laboratory. A lifetime in the forest.
My name is Lina. I'm an entomologist, and I make the most anatomically accurate moth sculptures you'll find anywhere.
I've loved insects since childhood — for what always seemed like their otherworldly origin, and the particular kind of life they inhabit that remains just out of reach for us. Alongside that fascination ran something else: a love of making things with my hands. I taught myself to embroider, sewed my own clothes and toys, learned hand-building with clay and the potter's wheel.
For five years I worked in an entomology laboratory in Siberia, studying bees and moths. The science came naturally — I have a quick mind and an almost compulsive attention to detail. But I found myself missing the act of making. When I left the lab in 2022 and emigrated to Europe, I decided to bring both halves of myself together: the scientist and the maker.
The result is what you see here — miniature, anatomically faithful moths, built by hand using a combination of techniques I've developed and refined through years of experimentation. The process is extraordinarily slow. I know that a piece like this isn't something everyone can fit into a budget without noticing — and I think about that.
That's partly why the forest jewellery exists. I spend a great deal of time in the woods, and one day I started gathering small pieces of it — lichen, moss, fragments of bark — and finding ways to preserve them into wearable objects. They carry the same quiet the moths do, at a more accessible price.
I'm also working on tutorials for those who want to try making a moth themselves. It's precise, miniature work that demands careful documentation — so it's moving slowly, but it's coming.
Techniques
Based in
Czech Republic
Background
Entomology, 5 years laboratory research
Commissions
Open · up to 4 weeks
Tutorials
In development
"I would very much like to share with the world everything I have and everything I can make. So if you've read this far — thank you. It means more than I can easily say."
— Lina