Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog and pearls on the bodice

and pearls on the bodice and sleeves

Nepalese paper in gold scallops on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

a French gown from 1775-1780

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

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog and pearls on the bodiceThis 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