Dress #028: Victorian dress in peach and lime. 2015 Handbag Japanese chiyogami paper in gold

Japanese chiyogami paper in gold diamonds on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

and cotton floss on cotton paper

and is considered by the Met to be the ‘only American to work in the true couture tradition’

Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper

a French gown from the 1770s

Dress #028: Victorian dress in peach and lime. 2015 Handbag Japanese chiyogami paper in goldBased on a dress from Dresses and Bonnets and Ribbons. New York: Lord & Taylor, 1870. 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