Description
Victorian Edwardian Hand Made Black Velvet Sewing Needle Case Fashionable Ladies High Button Shoe
What a charming and exquisite sewing needle case! Plush, hand made and velvet – perfect for your vintage sewing collection.
This very fashionable high button ladies shoe is made of black velvet, trimmed with purple thread, with a tassel at the top. The shoe “buttons” are also embroidered with the purple thread. Only the front of the shoe is decorated.
It opens at the top for storing a package of needles. The package of needles was made by T. Harper, English made crewel needles. Some needles still remain in the packet.
Measures 3-1/4″ high by 2-7/8″ wide from toe to heel at the widest point.
Condition: The purple thread is partially detached, near the top of the shoe to the point of the scallop. The thread appears just to have been glued so would need a little attention to fix. I believe, too, this same thread may have finished the top edge of the shoe, as a decoration, but, for the most part, is gone.
