Dress #032: Robe à la française in pale green flowers 18th century dress The belted dress features short

The belted dress features short sleeves

or Common Hedgehog) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

overlaid with Korean tissue and accented with silver

' published in London in 1789

Spring 1883)

Dress #032: Robe à la française in pale green flowers 18th century dress The belted dress features shortThe dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper), and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The design is based on an English gown from the 1760s, held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 60 1934); the style is known as a robe la franaise. 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