Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Met The bison is 4

The bison is 4

This hand-stitched black and bronze gown is based on a French evening dress by the Callot Soeurs of Paris

It is made from black chiyogami (Japanese) paper that is accented with a pattern of gold twigs

The rhinoceros is 4

overlaid with Korean tissue and accented with silver

Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Met The bison is 4Based on a dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly: vol 2, no. 1 Spring 1883. Philadelphia, Penn: Strawbridge and Clothier, 1883. 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, Japanese tissue, other paper, and cotton floss on cotton paper