Dress #059: Victorian dress in blue and cream Regency dress The only thing that makes

The only thing that makes them sad is that they are endangered

Beaded tassels shake and shimmy in these little gems of original boudoir art

while the trim is an Italian paper

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton

Dress #059: Victorian dress in blue and cream Regency dress The only thing that makesThis hand stitched Victorian paper gown is based on an American mourning dress from 1872 1874. Though the original dress is black, it always looked blue to me in the photographs, so that is the colour Ive chosen here. The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres, while the trim is an Italian paper. The fringes are simulated with Mizutama watermark tissue; glass beads stand in for the buttons on the