Dress #066: Victorian dress in blues and cream. 2016 Seal Stitched lines highlight the lines

Stitched lines highlight the lines and folds of the dress

The snail is 4 inches wide

is made from a shimmery Japanese paper

This was the first time I layered my papers

Dress #066: Victorian dress in blues and cream. 2016 Seal Stitched lines highlight the linesBased on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 1979. 34. 2ad, an American dinner dress from 1877 1883, from the Lord & Taylor department store. 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: Japanese papers, glass beads, and cotton floss on cotton paper