The embroidery is chenille
Tiny lozenges accent the couching and the sleeves
Pearly cream Japanese paper stands in for satin
cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described
it’s taken me years to get a platypus design that I was happy with
Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag The embroidery is chenilleThis 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