Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Anteater Materials: Nepalese lokta and Japanese

Materials: Nepalese lokta and Japanese papers

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper featuring red poppies and green leaves on a black background

and can often be found lecturing nests of younger turtles

The gigot sleeves of the upper arm are gathered into tight sleeves from below the elbows to the wrists

Materials: Decorative paper

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Wine Anteater Materials: Nepalese lokta and JapaneseThis 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