Dress #050: Edwardian evening gown in silver and white. 2018 Polar bear Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper

Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper

Dessinées D'aprèsdes Animaux Vivans

Based on Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 2009

I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern-patterned chiyogami paper

The dress is made from Korean hanji tissue laid over solid hanji

Dress #050: Edwardian evening gown in silver and white. 2018 Polar bear Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paperThis Edwardian dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper in a silver floral motif on white, overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue and accented with silver; It is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on an English dress from 1909, by Pickett of Saville Row, London, and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 33 1960). The dress was worn by a debutante, Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair, London, likely