Dress #101: 17th century gown in green and gold 1970s man also known as aniline purple

also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve

Materials: Japanese (chiyogami) paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St

The dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper)

whether it's the flat funnel shape of the Tudor and Georgian periods

Dress #101: 17th century gown in green and gold 1970s man also known as aniline purpleThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a rare, surviving late 17th century formal gown, possibly Italian, offered for sale by Cora Ginsburg in 2002. The original is made from a brocaded moir silk with pink, gold, and silver; Ive replicated the metallic stomacher with a layer of gold tissue stitched with gold thread. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into