Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Rabbit stitched by hand on 8x10

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper

Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper patterned in pink and white flowers on an apricot background

Japanese tissue stands in for both the lace overlay on the bust

with couched stitches and glass beads decorating the neckline and the bottom of the tabard

Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Rabbit stitched by hand on 8x10This hand stitched coral dress is based on an American dress by the Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, from ca. 1929, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. To imitate the cold and coral brocade of the original, I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern patterned chiyogami paper. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. After a great deal of thought about how to best portray the way the