Monstrous Seahorse in Silver & Black Hedgehog This hand-stitched Victorian paper gown

This hand-stitched Victorian paper gown is based on an American evening dress from ca

I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book ‘Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools’

I layered Japanese mizutama watermark tissue in dark rose over a shimmering lilac paper

The statement sleeves are supported by an inner layer of nylon crinoline

Monstrous Seahorse in Silver & Black Hedgehog This hand-stitched Victorian paper gownYou 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