Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) stone cut print 8" tall x 6 1/2"

8" tall x 6 1/2" wide (with dress spread flat)

There is an obvious stain to the paper along the right side

L just used this box

No way to loose track of one's spools or scissors with this guy around--though I think even if one hasn't sewed a stitch in one's life

hand-carved of what I think may be walnut though I'm no good at identifying woods

Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) stone cut print 8" tall x 6 1/2"A 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