Dress #038.2: Early Victorian dress in blue, red, and green on cream. 2017 Teacup Materials: Japanese paper and cotton

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

with its pointed train epitomizing the highest style of the time

The original dress features brown silk charmeuse and is cut on the bias

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds over a hundred pieces from Miss Firbank’s wardrobe

I think of Anne Shirley and her longing for puffed sleeves

Dress #038.2: Early Victorian dress in blue, red, and green on cream. 2017 Teacup Materials: Japanese paper and cottonBased on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession C. I. 61. 29, a British dress from 1834 1836. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton 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: Italian paper and cotton floss on cotton paper