Merrythought Ming Panda Heritage Collection Pattern_FrenchClassics Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown

This colourful easter time egg is designed with great love for detail and are masterfully crafted by hand

To Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II 1952-2012

Here a colourful sweet pea array clamber with swirling tendrils into a soporific coral-bed bloom of maroon

Merrythought Ming Panda Heritage Collection Pattern_FrenchClassics Charlie BrownSize H 20 cm L 30 cm In 1939, Merrythought was commissioned by London Zoo to design a life life (and life sized!) soft toy version of 'Ming', who is perhaps the most famous giant panda in British history and the first to set paw on British soil, in 1938. The brief was to create a copy so accurate, that it could act as a stand in for Ming when she wasn't in her enclosure! Merrythought rose to the challenge and created what was the world's first ever