Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Armadillo This darling little dress is

This darling little dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper patterned in green bamboo and pink and white flowers on a blue background

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

This handbag is based on a design from the 1898 spring and summer catalogue of H

James “experimented with innovative ways of placing and displacing the inner and outer circles in this basic pattern piece

Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Armadillo This darling little dress isYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch