Dress #045: Victorian dress in blues Burlesque Coloured Figures of Natural Objects

Coloured Figures of Natural Objects

If you don’t tell

Mine features a buckle in metallic paper

The bison is 4

summer 1890 catalogue

Dress #045: Victorian dress in blues Burlesque Coloured Figures of Natural ObjectsThis hand stitched Victorian paper dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads; shiny blue rayon fibres embedded in the surface of the darker paper provide a contrast to the lush feathered texture of the paler blue. It was the severe lines that attracted me to this dress, as it differs from the swags of fabric often found all over Victorian bustle dresses (although I love those, too). This was the first time I layered my papers,