I was reading your short story (from Metamorphasis) about the abduction and Rape of Proserpina and the mental image of 'She was heaping the folds of her dress with flowers' meant that all day my ideas involved grecian inspired dresses and using Kansashi Flowers (Japanese fabric flowers) to 'spill' flowers down the front.
This is a two-tier meshy material dress, with full circle skirts and piping on the bottom hem to accentuate the fullness of the skirts. There is a headband attatchment that has a ribbon (possibly wire-structured?) to 'spill' the Kanzashi through the hair. below the bust (the two lines of flowers from left and right that meet in the middle) are attatched directly to the dress.
Kansashi are an AMAZING artform, really delicate and pretty- but fiddly and difficult to make. I'm yet to perfect it, but I plan to do some serious folding in the next little while.
Vivcore has a phenomenal resource page where she posts the extreme old-school Kanzashi she makes:
The occasional Pop-Inspired arrangement:
The occasional Pop-Inspired arrangement:
And tutorials, with step-by-step photos.
Hurrah!
(Tutorials FTW. Some tutorials planned for ImPrint in the next little while.)
All my love,
