Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Pinup dress This hand-stitched paper 1920s dress

This hand-stitched paper 1920s dress is made from silvered blue tissue layered over blue and white filigree chiyogami (Japanese paper)

This hand-stitched brown Regency dress

I ended up inserting it into slits cut in the dress

is made from a shimmery Japanese paper

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Pinup dress This hand-stitched paper 1920s dressThis 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