Dress #041: Victorian dress in pale yellow and navy. 2015 Catalogue Materials: Japanese katazome paper

Materials: Japanese katazome paper

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds over a hundred pieces from Miss Firbank’s wardrobe

instead of cutting each piece to fit together like puzzle pieces

This hand-stitched paper Edwardian dress is made from blue Japanese paper with shimmering pearly white paper standing in for the lace of the original

Dress #041: Victorian dress in pale yellow and navy. 2015 Catalogue Materials: Japanese katazome paperBased on Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 2009. 300. 838ac, an American evening dress from 1893. 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 paper, glass beads, and cotton floss on cotton paper