Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Mid-century dress you probably don’t have a

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highlighted with glass beads

Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

patterned with cranes

which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size

Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Mid-century dress you probably don’t have aThis hand stitched coral dress is based on an American dress by the Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, from ca. 1929, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. To imitate the cold and coral brocade of the original, I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern patterned chiyogami paper. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. After a great deal of thought about how to best portray the way the