Have you ever seen a miniature? How about a MICRO miniature?
Microminiatures are miniatures so small you need special tools and months of work to create even one. They are so small a whole scene can be sculpted in one human hair!
Vladimir Aniskin is a genius of microminiatures from Russia, and he creates some of the smallest miniatures in the world, creating whole sculptures and scenes on rice seeds, hairs and even poppy and grape seed. Each of his works takes a painstaking 6 months to create!
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All these illustrations are made on one single rice seed |
The Christmas tree and a snowman are located on the section of a horse hair |
Watch a zoom-in display of this amazing Microminiature! |
A copy of the UEFA Cup is located on the cut from a poppy seed. Its height is 2 mm. |
Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends are set on the cut from a poppy seed. |
Eight camels placed inside the eye of a needle (their height is less than 0.08 mm). |
Watch a zoom-in display of this amazing Microminiature! |
Text that consists of 2,027 letters and 22 lines is engraved on a rice seed. |
The submarine is located on a section of a poppy seed. |
Heroes of the Russian cartoon “Buratino” are placed on this cut from a grape seed. |
This chess table is made of a walnut shell. It’s 3.5 mm in length, 2.5 mm in width and 2 mm in height. The height of chessmen made of silver and gold ranges from 0.15 to 0.3 mm. |
A bottle of wine and two glasses are placed on the section of a grape seed. |
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