Sweater in Red, Orange, and Gold Tudor and Elizabethan dress Materials: Tibetan lokta paper and

Materials: Tibetan lokta paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 45

to imitate the silk

This is based on an illustration from Richard Lydekker & Philip Lutley Sclater’s ‘The Royal Natural History’ from 1893

Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s

Sweater in Red, Orange, and Gold Tudor and Elizabethan dress Materials: Tibetan lokta paper andEvery time I see leg o' mutton sleeves, I think of Anne Shirley and her longing for puffed sleeves. This sweater is based on a golf jersey design from the 1898 Spencer, Turner and Boldero, Ltd. Catalog. Can an you imagine playing golf in a corset and giant sleeves? The sweater is 3. 75 inches wide, stitched 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