Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY puppet Mid-century or so I would

Mid-century or so I would guess

The Mississippian produced some incredibly effigy vessels in the form of human heads and animals

Done in wool yarn on perforated paper

Froebel's Kindergarten used play as its engine and his Spielgaben ("play gifts") were the fuel

4 1/4" long x 3 5/8" tall

Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY puppet Mid-century or so I wouldI 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