Dress #084: 1920s dress in wine and gold Polar bear cut from paper and stitched

cut from paper and stitched by hand

and I looked through my entire collection to find the perfect shape to make these paper teacups and saucers

so they are pretty hard to improve on

and 9 yards of embroidery’

Dress #084: 1920s dress in wine and gold Polar bear cut from paper and stitchedThis hand stitched paper 1920s dress is made from wine and gold chiyogami (Japanese paper) chosen to echo the Bordeaux wool of the original The design is based on an afternoon dress from Berthe Hermance, as shown in the December 1926 issue of Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustre des Arts dcoratifs appliqus la femme. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that