Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Met and is considered by the

and is considered by the Met to be the ‘only American to work in the true couture tradition’

overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue and accented with silver

It is based on an 1811 illustration of the Vampire Bat from ‘The Natural History of Quadrupeds

summer 1890 catalogue

Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Met and is considered by theBased on a dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly: vol 2, no. 1 Spring 1883. Philadelphia, Penn: Strawbridge and Clothier, 1883. 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, Japanese tissue, other paper, and cotton floss on cotton paper