Winged Dragon in Blues LACMA Materials: Nepalese lokta & Japanese

Materials: Nepalese lokta & Japanese papers

1900 and is held by the McCord-Stewart Museum (accession M977

each cut out separately and stitched

Materials: Korean paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

Winged Dragon in Blues LACMA Materials: Nepalese lokta & JapaneseThis legless winged dragon is from a 1742 book by Charles Owen, titled An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts. It is further subtitled Illustrated with Copper Plates, Engraved by the Best Hands: The Whole Intermixd with Variety of Entertaining Digressions, Philosophical and Historical. The dragon is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any