Dress #045: Victorian dress in blues Raccoon and can often be found

and can often be found lecturing nests of younger turtles

Based on a 1774 illustration of Bos Bison (American Bison) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

The original shoe is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1980

and hand stitched on cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

Dress #045: Victorian dress in blues Raccoon and can often be foundThis hand stitched Victorian paper dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads; shiny blue rayon fibres embedded in the surface of the darker paper provide a contrast to the lush feathered texture of the paler blue. It was the severe lines that attracted me to this dress, as it differs from the swags of fabric often found all over Victorian bustle dresses (although I love those, too). This was the first time I layered my papers,