Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag This ostrich is based on

This ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1748 book Angenehmer Und Nützlicher Zeit-Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender

it’s taken me years to get a platypus design that I was happy with

Tiny lozenges accent the couching and the sleeves

but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration

The embroidery is chenille

Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag This ostrich is based onThis 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