Micro miniature

Micro miniatures are made with the assistance of microscopes, or eye surgeon tools.

[2] The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds a micro-miniature basket made by a Pomo Native American artist around 1910.

[3] The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California has a collection of the microminiatures of the Armenian artist Hagop Sandaldjian in their permanent exhibition, The Eye of the Needle.

It features the work of Edward Ter Ghazarian, Anatoly Konenko, Nikolai Aldunin among others.

[1] The Museum of Microminiatures in St. Petersburg includes micro-miniature work by Vladimir Aniskin of Novosibirsk, Siberia, as well as Nikolai Aldunin of Moscow.

Micro miniature : grasshopper playing on the violin
Microminiature sculpture by Vladimir Aniskin
Micro miniature in the eye of a needle by Edward Ter-Ghazarian 1