Dress #009: Regency dress in mint and gold: rear view. 2014 Gallery This hand-stitched paper Edwardian dress

This hand-stitched paper Edwardian dress is made from blue Japanese paper with shimmering pearly white paper standing in for the lace of the original

or the exaggerated curves and nipped in waist of the Victorian era

I have continued to collect them

This darling little dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper patterned in green bamboo and pink and white flowers on a blue background

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

Dress #009: Regency dress in mint and gold: rear view. 2014 Gallery This hand-stitched paper Edwardian dressBased on Victoria & Albert Museum accession T. 795 1913, a British evening dress from about 1810. 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, and cotton floss on cotton paper.