Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper

Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper

a French gown from 1775-1780

which I’ve replicated with a metallic hemp & silk tissue

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on an English day dress from 1835-1840

Based on an 1881 illustration of the Male moose from ‘The Antelope and Deer of America: A Comprehensive Treatise Upon the Natural History

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paperThis is no ordinary dragon; it is based on an illustration described (in Latin) thusly: This is that winged and four legged dragon, memorable to all ages, which Deodatus de Gozon, a knight of Jerusalem, cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described, and who, because of the beneficence bestowed on the island, was afterwards created a great master of the order. The book I found it in, by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678, has