Elephant in blue, black & silver Giraffe This hand-stitched Edwardian evening dress

This hand-stitched Edwardian evening dress is made from Japanese paper

creating a form-fitting columnar silhouette

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1971

The original dress features brown silk charmeuse and is cut on the bias

This hand-stitched paper gown in the ‘artistic’ or ‘aesthetic’ style is based on an English dress designed for Liberty & Co

Elephant in blue, black & silver Giraffe This hand-stitched Edwardian evening dressBased on an 1890 illustration of Afrikanische Elefant (African Elephant) from Meyers Konversations Lexikon: Eine Encyklopadie Des Allgemeinen Wissens. The elephant is 4. 75 inches tall, stitched by hand by hand on 5x7 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 papers, glass bead, and cotton floss on cotton paper.