and 9 yards of embroidery’
Materials: Japanese and Korean papers
This hand-stitched brown Regency dress
Based on a dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly: vol 2
This heart is based on an 1885 illustration of 'The Heart' from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s ‘Hygiene for Young People’
Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Pinup dress and 9 yards of embroidery’This 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