Monstrous Seahorse in Silver & Black PMA with pale blue Mizutama watermark

with pale blue Mizutama watermark tissue laid over a pale shimmering green to imitate the silk of the original dress

The pouf of the gigot sleeves has travelled further down the wearer’s arms

Anglica Et Latina’

This hand-stitched blue Regency dress

most of my paper dresses are now assembled in this fashion

Monstrous Seahorse in Silver & Black PMA with pale blue Mizutama watermarkYou 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