Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY medicine bottle One set out

One set out

Photos do no justice to the warmth and presence of this

Just great in every detail

Box measures 7 1/16" x 2 3/8" x 2 13/16" t

) and bullseye at the center

Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY medicine bottle One set outI sold a pair of these several months ago but had set aside two more to enjoy myself for a while before offering them up. I know that these 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 them as patterns, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric mark pieces to be cut and seams to be