Dress #084: 1920s dress in wine and gold Polar bear This sweater is based on

This sweater is based on a golf jersey design from the 1898 Spencer

so they are pretty hard to improve on

and 9 yards of embroidery’

I couldn’t call myself a Torontonian if I didn’t have a raccoon in my collection

to echo the original French silk

Dress #084: 1920s dress in wine and gold Polar bear This sweater is based onThis 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