1760s shoe in Florentine blues Men gilt buckle

gilt buckle

full of shiny rayon fibres

and is considered by the Met to be the ‘only American to work in the true couture tradition’

metallic thread

This pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread

1760s shoe in Florentine blues Men gilt buckleThis 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