Monstrous Seahorse in Pink, White, and Silver hippocampus with shimmering pearly paper forming

with shimmering pearly paper forming the lace shirtwaist

a Peter Pan collar

designed by Michele Clapton

The beaver is 4

Monstrous Seahorse in Pink, White, and Silver hippocampus with shimmering pearly paper formingYou 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