Dress #020: Queen Elizabeth I gown in black and gold: front view. 2014 Costume dress Little & Co

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One of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions

Based on a 1792 illustration of Pinguinaria patachonica (Penguin) from ‘Musei Leveriani Explicatio

looking for my knight

to imitate the look of a sheer dress with a slip

Dress #020: Queen Elizabeth I gown in black and gold: front view. 2014 Costume dress Little & CoBased on a variety of Elizabethan dresses and film costumes. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton 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: Chiyogami, Japanese tissue, glass beads, metallic thread, and cotton floss on cotton paper