Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree 1920s and 1930s dress likely during her first Society

likely during her first Society Season

Every mushroom is technically edible

This hand-stitched dress in based on a gown from the Austrian House of Drécoll

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951

Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree 1920s and 1930s dress likely during her first SocietyThis 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