Dress #010: Regency dress in mint and gold: front view. 2014 Snail Frances Cashel Hoey

Frances Cashel Hoey

based on a design from an 1888 Work Bros

each one carefully stitched on by hand

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper featuring red poppies and green leaves on a black background

what with it being our national animal and all

Dress #010: Regency dress in mint and gold: front view. 2014 Snail Frances Cashel HoeyBased on Victoria & Albert Museum accession T. 795 1913, a British evening dress from about 1810. 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, and cotton floss on cotton paper.