Shoes
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, metal thread, embroidery thread and wool.
Measurements
Each shoe: 90 mm (Width); 240 mm (Length)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108060
Summary
Pair of Indian ladies shoes with leather soles. Hand-made. Leather uppers densely embroidered with metal thread-work, now tarnished and discoloured. Some evidences of coloured threads in pink, purple, green and red. The top edge was formally bound in green silk. Inside lined with red wool and decoration in metal thread. Found in Burmese Poongyi Box No.441 (V & A Catalogue 1927). Condition: Poor condition. Tarnished, abraded, rigid.