Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Pinup dress Materials: Nepalese lokta paper and

Materials: Nepalese lokta paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

This hand-stitched paper 1920s dress is made from silvered blue tissue layered over blue and white filigree chiyogami (Japanese paper)

and 9 yards of embroidery’

When I first saw this ca

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Pinup dress Materials: Nepalese lokta paper andThis 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