Japanese Shoe Maker's Patterns/Templates--Sold Individually globe shaped box whose work seems to have

whose work seems to have become quite collectible

reading rather like two crowns pointing in opposite directions

And indeed this puzzle does

in Partenkirchen

and great looking too

Japanese Shoe Maker's Patterns/Templates--Sold Individually globe shaped box whose work seems to haveWe l know that these were brought back from Japan many years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemakers workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot, I presume construction to read these, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric marks pieces to be cut and seams to be sewn. I find them just exceptionally beautiful found objects very Japanese and also very contemporary feeling. I