designers
The Leonards and Rachel Murphy

seamstress
Rachel Murphy

“The base fabric of this bold, “fiery” Irish dance dress is a coral-gold metallic silk fused onto the cranberry-red “falling rain” netting. The appliqué fabrics include metallic shades of red, black, copper, and gold. All of the embroidery is freehand machine satin stitching in similar metallic shades. The skirt lining is made of a metallic peach-gold brocade, and the bloomers are made of a pale orange liquid lame. The dress is accented with Swarovski (genuine Austrian) crystals, in red and the peach-gold Sun Aurora Borealis.

“Flower and Flame” was completed in September of 2005, for Kristin Leonard of the Comerford School of Irish Dance.