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an English silk brocade day dress from ca
in imitation of the scarf-like fabric of the original
held by the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession T
Celadon stitches stand in for the embroidered trim
Nepalese paper in gold scallops on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads
Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Costume an English silk brocade dayYou 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
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