Moroccan Silk Slippers Babouches

These Moroccan silk slippers are handmade to perfection the inside sole is crafted of soft leather. hand-sewn leather sole. You won't want to take ...

Handmade Moroccan goat hair fur babouche slippers. Fabulous handstitched slippers made in Marrakech from natural long goats hair leather sole with elongated toe. Moroccan leather s...

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...

nr. 1025 - Rare little Moroccan TUAREG mat, found and purchased by a traveller more than thirty years ago in a remote village in the mountains of Morocco. It's intact, without breaks...