Dress #037: Regency dress in green filigree. 2015 Raccoon This darling little pinup dress

This darling little pinup dress is made from Korean hanji paper in pink and purple flowers on a pale lime green background

I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book ‘Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools’

after the abundance of whites in the earlier part of the Regency/Empire era

and 9 yards of embroidery’

Dress #037: Regency dress in green filigree. 2015 Raccoon This darling little pinup dressBased on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 1980. 145. 1a,b, a British visiting dress from ca. 1822. 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: Chiyogami, glass beads, and cotton floss on cotton paper