Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree harpy It is made from Japanese

It is made from Japanese paper

The dress is six inches tall

and the most beautiful Thai kozo paper for silk satin top

containing 18 yards of best gingham

each cut out separately and stitched

Winged & four-legged dragon in red and silver filigree harpy It is made from JapaneseThis 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