Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) stone cut print and sense of being specific

and sense of being specific individuals

There were probably once at least as few more drawers to make a complete grid

and everything in between

with some wear especially on the snake end of the slide

There is an obvious stain to the paper along the right side

Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) stone cut print and sense of being specificA year or two ago I purchased a handful of Japanese cobbler's patterns from a dealer friend in Maine and have sold them over time; this one is the last. What I know is that they were brought back from Japan years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read this as a pattern, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white