Dress #061: Regency dress in blue. 2018 Parasol The original dress is held

The original dress is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession CIRC

Materials: Japanese & Korean papers

Materials: Japanese paper and rayon floss on cotton paper

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Dress #061: Regency dress in blue. 2018 Parasol The original dress is heldThis hand stitched blue Regency dress, straight out of a Jane Austen novel, is made from a shimmery Japanese paper, overlaid with Koume watermark tissue, and accented with glass beads. Hand embroidered lines imitate the seams and folds of the dress, with tiny shell shapes standing in for the applique along the bottom of the dress. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The piece is based on a British dress and spencer jacket from ca.