Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Armadillo silk ribbon

silk ribbon

This handbag is based on a design from the 1898 spring and summer catalogue of H

This darling little pinup dress is made from Tibetan lokta paper in a golden fish pattern on a bright blue background

Simmonds & Sons of Haymarket

Materials: Chiyogami and cotton floss on cotton paper

Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple Armadillo silk ribbonYou 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