Dress #037: Regency dress in green filigree. 2015 Raccoon and 9 yards of embroidery’

and 9 yards of embroidery’

Materials: Japanese papers

Hand embroidered lines imitate the folds of the skirt

and is considered by the Met to be the ‘only American to work in the true couture tradition’

The original dress is held by the Museum at FIT  (accession 91

Dress #037: Regency dress in green filigree. 2015 Raccoon and 9 yards of embroidery’Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 1980. 145. 1a,b, a British visiting dress from ca. 1822. 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, glass beads, and cotton floss on cotton paper