Victorian Handbag in Blue Roses Victorian dress silk ribbon

silk ribbon

and renaissance styles favoured by the pre-Raphaelites

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

and the tradition continued with Nana giving me my first teacups when I was a little girl

Victorian Handbag in Blue Roses Victorian dress silk ribbonThis handbag is based on a design from the 1898 spring and summer catalogue of H. ONeill & Co. of New York. The handbag is 3. 25 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 on your wall. Materials: Japanese paper, glass bead, and cotton floss on cotton paper.