1760s shoe in Florentine orange and plum Catalogue I’ve replicated the metallic stomacher

I’ve replicated the metallic stomacher with a layer of gold tissue stitched with gold thread

These four-button shoes are from an Edwardian design

Materials: Japanese & Korean paper

and are based on an illustration from the 1911 The Americana

1760s shoe in Florentine orange and plum Catalogue I’ve replicated the metallic stomacherThis elegant woman's shoe is based on a design from the 1760s; the originals were of painted kid leather. Mine features a buckle in metallic paper, embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones, each one carefully stitched on by hand. The original shoe is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession 270&A 1891). The shoe is 3. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any