This hand-stitched paper dress is based on an English day dress from 1835-1840
which I’ve replicated with a metallic hemp & silk tissue
Simmonds & Sons of Haymarket
Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper
as it was in very poor condition
Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Hedgehog This hand-stitched paper dress isThis 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