This embroidered dress, created for an art installation of 1920s garments, was commissioned for Louis Vuitton La Galerie museum in Asnières-sur-Seine. The design was drawn by hand onto muslin mounted in embroidery frames, and the beads attached by a tambour hook with cotton thread. The shoulders are smocked and a handmade tassel in silk thread is attached to the train of the dress.

The design for this intricately embroidered dress is based on the William Morris windrush pattern. The pattern was first drawn by hand in pencil on calico mounted on a wooden embroidery slate frame, then painted with Setasilk fabric paint and Seidenmalerei Javana silk paint. The larger motifs in the foreground were then traced onto silk metal organza backed with power woven Dupion silk fabric and applied to the calico.

This design for this reproduction of an 18th-century embroidery was taken from 1738 English court mantua petticoat. Rosie Taylor-Davies embroidered the floral design set on silk fabric with silk and silver metal threads.

Height 9 cm
Width 9 cm

This design of this cornucopia, a reproduction of an 18th-century embroidery, was taken from 1738 English court mantua petticoat. Rosie embroidered silk fabric with silk and silver metal threads.

Height 9 cm
Width 9 cm

This embroidered wedding dress was handmade during the Covid-19 pandemic. The bride didn’t see the completed work until the day of her wedding. The front bodice design represents the symbols of earth and air, the back-bodice water, and the bride's astrological sign of Aries represented by the symbol of fire. All the motifs represent New Zealand and English flora and fauna as the bride has dual nationality.