Sweater in Blue Filigree Corset and glass beads on cotton

and glass beads on cotton paper

This pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread

decoration is kept to the bottom portion of the skirt

so they are pretty hard to improve on

Sweater in Blue Filigree Corset and glass beads on cottonEvery 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