Dress #071: 1920s dress in black and silver. 2016 Vampire bat glass beads

glass beads

Based on a 1903 illustration of the Hump-Backed Whale (Megaptera boops) from ‘British mammals

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

I ended up inserting it into slits cut in the dress

Dress #071: 1920s dress in black and silver. 2016 Vampire bat glass beadsThis hand stitched black and silver dress is based on an American or European gown from ca. 1928, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. The dress hangs in two tiers, with each edged in Japanese tissue to imitate the floating layers of the original. Japanese chiyogami paper in silver filigree on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny silver and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold