Replicated from a rare example of a hand painted 18th century shoe found in the Flanders Region. This was completed as part of a grant project from Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Hand painted with natural pigments from areas surrounding the Dutch regions, hand carved heel, Channel sewn construction meaning after the shoe is assembled you removed it from the last, stick your hand inside and stitch from the inside out. Paper was used in the sewing process, as it was in the 18th century, to prevent any pigment from smudging. It is a treasure to come across small bits of paper in the stitch line of archeological finds. Each shoe is sewn with hand twisted and waxed thread with wild German boar hair as needles.