Dress #005: Robe à la française in pink and cream. 2014 Costume embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones

embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones

each one carefully stitched on by hand

Based on Simplicity sewing pattern 5881 from 1973

and appeared in his book 'Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet' in 1906

The dress of women from the Gallo-Roman period to the present time'

Dress #005: Robe à la française in pink and cream. 2014 Costume embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestonesBased on Victoria & Albert Museum accession 700 1864, an English gown from the 1760s. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 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