This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951
but also as Golden Chanterelles
Materials: Nepalese lokta and Thai kozo papers
but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration
Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper
Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree 1920s and 1930s dress 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