Dress #098: Victorian dress in black Seal overlaid with Korean tissue

overlaid with Korean tissue

is made from Japanese paper accented with a glass bead on the sleeve

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

It was the severe lines that attracted me to this dress

and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self-covered flat buttons at the back left

Dress #098: Victorian dress in black Seal overlaid with Korean tissueWhen I first saw this ca. 1885 travelling ensemble in an Augusta Auctions catalogue from 2024, I had two thoughts: This is the gothest thing Ive ever seen, and; Sadly, all that black on black wont translate well into stitched paper. I was correct about the first, but it turns out I was wrong about the second! 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