Japanese Shoe Maker's Patterns/Templates--Sold Individually globe shaped box in Partenkirchen

in Partenkirchen

whose work seems to have become quite collectible

almost as if practicing in advance of producing a single stamp

This is one of my favorite finds ever

or really for most anything

Japanese Shoe Maker's Patterns/Templates--Sold Individually globe shaped box in PartenkirchenWe l know that these were brought back from Japan many years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemakers workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot, I presume construction to read these, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric marks pieces to be cut and seams to be sewn. I find them just exceptionally beautiful found objects very Japanese and also very contemporary feeling. I