Can this be my wedding dress? I'm so serious. It's made out of vintage book pages & sheet music and was photographed in a random display window at the Dallas Home & Gift Show back in July. Interested seamstresses up for the challenge... call me! :) {Image via Resonating Tales by Lori of Katies Rose Cottage}

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Hecklinger's Ladies Garments, a text book - How to Cut and Make Up Ladies Garments pub 1886 www.archive.org/stream/hecklingersladie00heck#page/n0/mod...