Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Met summer 1890 catalogue

summer 1890 catalogue

This hand-stitched black and bronze gown is based on a French evening dress by the Callot Soeurs of Paris

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch watercolour paper

overlaid with Korean tissue and accented with silver

The rhinoceros is 4

Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Met summer 1890 catalogueBased on a dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly: vol 2, no. 1 Spring 1883. Philadelphia, Penn: Strawbridge and Clothier, 1883. 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, other paper, and cotton floss on cotton paper