"Inspired by my Barony of Sacred Stone’s Phoenix, I found phoenix images on http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery149.htm# as resources. Red leather for the eyes and crown evokes the fire from which the phoenix rises. The beak is cinched a bit for a downward turn. The beak is shorter than most plague masks so I could actually wear it during this current pandemic.", Based on several images of the phoenix in the 1200s in England and France and one from 1350 from Flanders. leather, waxed linen, metal feather pendant, leather punch, needle, pliers, scissors, graphite "Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, Folio 70r-70v, 13th c. English; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 14429, Folio 107r, 13th century, French; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, Folio 83v, circa 1350, Flanders. I acquired all of these images from http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery149.htm# "