Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple bestiary Materials: Japanese paper and cotton

Materials: Japanese paper and cotton floss on cotton

made from dyed

and silver

It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s

Monstrous Seahorse in Gold Dots on Purple bestiary Materials: Japanese paper and cottonYou 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