Dress #063: Regency dress in pink. 2016 Pinup dress an English gown from the

an English gown from the 1760s

Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

Nepalese paper in gold on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

Dress #063: Regency dress in pink. 2016 Pinup dress an English gown from theThis pale rose Regency dress, straight out of a Jane Austen novel, is made from Edo Kosome Japanese paper, a thin paper with an embossed pattern of tiny flowers. The bottom of the dress is overlaid with matching Japanese tissue, with curving lines of couched floss imitating the piping of the original dress. Tiny lozenges accent the couching and the sleeves, and glass beads stand in for the buttons decorating the spencer jacket. Hand embroidered lines