Dress #082.2: Edwardian afternoon dress in cream and black 1920s and 1930s dress and is held by the

and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T

Miss Firbank would have been a contemporary of Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary Crawley

was manufactured by A

The dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper) and is hand stitched on cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

Dress #082.2: Edwardian afternoon dress in cream and black 1920s and 1930s dress and is held by theThis hand stitched paper Edwardian dress is cut from rich cream paper and embellished with ivory coloured glass beads. The design is based on an afternoon dress from the Cauet Soeurs, as shown in the November 1908 issue of 'Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustre des Arts dcoratifs appliqus la femme'. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready