Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) stone cut print and everything in between

and everything in between

There were probably once at least as few more drawers to make a complete grid

with some wear especially on the snake end of the slide

and sense of being specific individuals

Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) stone cut print and everything in betweenA year or two ago I purchased a handful of Japanese cobbler's patterns from a dealer friend in Maine and have sold them over time; this one is the last. What I know is that they were brought back from Japan years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read this as a pattern, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white