Winged dragon in orange and gold Snail the original illustration for this

the original illustration for this ‘Polupus’ is from Conrad Gessner’s ‘Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum’

The faint shimmer of handmade purple Japanese papers evokes the silk crepe of the underdress and silk velvet of the tabard

This bewhiskered beaver is made from orange and gold Nepalese paper and features a gold glass bead eye

Materials: Japanese paper

an English dress from ca

Winged dragon in orange and gold Snail the original illustration for thisThis legless winged dragon is from a 1742 book by Charles Owen, titled An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts. It is further subtitled Illustrated with Copper Plates, Engraved by the Best Hands: The Whole Intermixd with Variety of Entertaining Digressions, Philosophical and Historical. The dragon is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any