Dress #004: Victorian dress in black, lime and pale rose 1920s and 1930s dress Materials: Nepalese paper

Materials: Nepalese paper

This hand stitched Victorian paper dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads

stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

which is why it appears to stick straight out at the back

Based on an 1804 illustration of Ursus Maritimus / L’Ours Polaire from ‘La Ménagerie Du Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle Ou Description Et Histoire Des Animaux Qui Y Vivent Et Qui Y Ont Vécu’

Dress #004: Victorian dress in black, lime and pale rose 1920s and 1930s dress Materials: Nepalese paperThe dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper), and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper; the dress design is from Lord & Taylor's 'Dresses and Bonnets and Ribbons' (1870). The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall. Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper.