Painted fabric and leather "Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe"
Object ID:
2012-63-1
Accession #:
2012-63-1
Category:
Made by Students
Medium:
Paint, fabric, leather, cardboard, ribbon
Creator:
Betsey Doane Brace
Date:
between 1810 and 1830
Held at:
Litchfield Historical Society
Size:
6" length, 2 1/2" high
Description:
Small hand made red leather shoe with a blue ribbon trim. Shoe is filled with eleven small handmade and painted fabric figures constructed from thick, stiff fabric, depicting the "Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe". Figures are all dressed in hand-stitched fabric costumes and secured to the shoe and each other with thread to create one unit. The interior of the shoe is stuffed with wool. Leather body of shoe is stitched to a cardboard sole.
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