shoes

Pair of shoes made of hemp in the style of those worn in Sung dynasty. Soles formed by winding the thick cords of twisted fibre into an ellipse and stitching together. Uppers of narrower single plied lengths rising vertically from sole and looped around two horizontal lengths of the twine. These are pulled through loops in two similar lengths going round the back of the ankle so as to be secured in front of it. The toe area has a denser strip of horizontally wrapped lengths of twine also looped around the pairs of horizontal twine lengths at the top.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2006.220
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
2006.220.1: 270 mm x 110 mm x 50 mm; 2006.220.2: 275 mm x 105 mm x 60 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
hemp
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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