Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Armadillo Based on a dress from

Based on a dress from Fox and Kelly's Fashion Catalogue Illustrated: Fall and Winter 1888-9

with curving lines of couched floss imitating the piping of the original dress

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

Waistlines were still high in the 1830s

Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Armadillo Based on a dress fromYou 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