Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues Elephant It is made from chiyogami

It is made from chiyogami Japanese paper

Dresses in this style can be seen in the early seasons of Downton Abbey

Pearly cream Japanese paper stands in for satin

known through the marriage of art and nature

Based on an 1890 illustration of Afrikanische Elefant (African Elephant) from ‘Meyers Konversations-Lexikon: Eine Encyklopädie Des Allgemeinen Wissens’

Winged & Four-legged Dragon in Blues Elephant It is made from chiyogamiThis 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