Dress #017: 18th century gown in blue with navy, yellow, and pink. 2014 Anteater Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paper

Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s

Dresses in this style can be seen in the early seasons of Downton Abbey

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

Dress #017: 18th century gown in blue with navy, yellow, and pink. 2014 Anteater Materials: Nepalese and Japanese paperBased on Victoria & Albert Museum accession T. 391 1970, an English gown from ca. 1780. 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 and cotton floss on cotton paper