False Chanterelle in Pink and Silver Filigree Shoes and boots This hand stitched Victorian paper

This hand stitched Victorian paper dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads

The fringes are simulated with Mizutama watermark tissue

and reinterpreted in further colour palettes

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1981

False Chanterelle in Pink and Silver Filigree Shoes and boots This hand stitched Victorian paperThese chanterelles are identified as poisonous 'Cantharellus aurantiacus' (aka the False Chanterelle), but also as Golden Chanterelles, which are not poisonous. Will these kill you? Who knows? Every mushroom is technically edible. Once. The chanterelles are based on an illustration from the 1911 The Americana; a Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World. The