Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Hearts Materials: Japanese paper and cotton

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

With a traditional circle skirt

they would typically be worn with a ‘shirtwaist’

I’m sure Betty Draper would have coveted his creations during the early seasons of Mad Men

Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Hearts Materials: Japanese paper and cottonThis 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