Antique Italian Venetian Shoes Leather and Silk Embroidered Framed

Antique Leather Mughal Moorish Turkish Ottoman Shoes with Gold Embroidered. A pair of rare late 19th century hand stitched and hand tooled leather shoes ...

These Moroccan silk slippers are handmade to perfection the inside sole is crafted of soft leather. These shoes are the traditional Moroccan shoes, all hand made with hand-sewn leather sole. You won't want to take the Moroccan babouches off your feet! Moroccan slippers...

Framed in a Lucite box, pair of Asian Chinese leather and silk shoes embroidered and adorned with gold thread. Exquisite pair of collectible antique shoes mounted and presented on a ...

These dainty, pointed slippers, made of blue silk and embroidered with pink flowers, were shaped to resemble a lotus bud and enhanced the diminutive shape of bound feet. A practice that began in the Tang dynasty and reached the height of its popularity in the Qing dynasty, foot binding was a painful process intended to make a woman's feet as small as possible by restricting bone growth from an early age. The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive - albeit tortured - gait of small, light steps. These embroidered silk lotus slippers...