Dress #014: Robe à la française in black and white: front view. 2014 1920s and 1930s dress patterned with cranes

patterned with cranes

stitched by hand on 100% cotton water  colour paper

Metallic blue tissue stands in for the beadworked panels of the original

Japanese tissue

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Dress #014: Robe à la française in black and white: front view. 2014 1920s and 1930s dress patterned with cranesBased on Victoria & Albert Museum accession T. 332 1985, a French gown from 1775 1780. 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 and cotton floss on cotton paper