Dress #102: Regency day dress in yellow

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on Philadelphia Museum of Art accession 1996-164-1, an English silk brocade day dress from ca. 1820. This was a transitional time period for women’s clothing, as waists dropped and sleeves and skirts filled out. The original dress is made from a yellow silk brocade imported from India.

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: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper; 24.5 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8")