"Hurray, I'm so excited what this new week will bring…….I smell something good….", says this tiny heraldic dragon.
Perhaps you say it doesn't look like a dragon, that what I thought too, but according to WiKi (and the designer) it is a dragon ;-)):
"""Originally, heraldic dragons could have any number of legs, but, by the late Middle Ages, due to the widespread proliferation of bestiaries, heraldry began to distinguish between a "dragon" (which could only have exactly four legs) and a "wyvern" (which could only have exactly two).
A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire. Dragons in eastern cultures are usually depicted as wingless, four-legged, serpentine creatures with above-average intelligence. Commonalities between dragons' traits are often a hybridization of feline, reptilian, mammalian, and avian features."""
Folded this origami dragon from one stroke of elephant paper 1:8 ( 7x56cm). Final size: length 17,5cm, height 9,5cm, width 1cm
Model: origami Moose's Dragon
Design: Emmanuel Mooser
Diagrams on the CD: The Origami World of Neal Elias by Dave Venables and Marc Cooman
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