Waterlilies
concept: julia and sierra hamill
designer/seamstress: rachel murphy

Waterlilies is a one-off, original design Irish dance dress from Silverlode Needlecraft.  The base fabric is a dark purple-indigo metallic silk, and the appliqué consists of various metallic fabrics (lames, brocades, glitterdots) in shades of purple/lavender, lime and aqua green, with touches of fuchsia and sapphire/turquoise.  The embroidery is all freehand machine work using a satin stitch, and in the same metallic colors.  The dress is accented with Swarovski (genuine Austrian) crystals in shades of pale green, fuchsia, and indigo-heliotrope.

The inspiration of Waterlilies came during a visit to an art museum and seeing one of Claude Monet’s many paintings on the theme, so we tried to utilize the same color scheme of the purple/green/whitish/fuchsia, with a touch of the sapphire/turquoise that one sees predominant in his other paintings.

Waterlilies was completed in February, 2007.

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