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This pair of slippers are a fine examples of traditional embroidered and beaded footwear from Malaysia made in the early 20th century by ethnic Chinese women. These slippers were made by women of the Chinese community living in Malaysia and therefore are a nice complement to shoes for bound feet as worn by Han Chinese women of the same period.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a distinctive Chinese community evolved in Peninsular Malaya. The group flourished in the former British colonies along the Straits of Malacca, namely, Penang, Malacca and Singapore. The community is referred to as Straits Chinese, also known as Chinese Baba or simply Baba. The women are called Nyonya. From the late 19th century until WWII young Nyonya of marriageable age were taught to sew and embroider articles for their personal use as well as for their wedding ceremony. These included pillow covers, bed hangings and decorative panels used in the bridal chamber. Of special significance was the embroidering and beading of the wedding slippers. The prospective bride prepared a range of slippers to be presented as part of her wedding dowry, to the groom and his family. To show off the bride's work a special showcase of embroidered footwear was displayed in the bridal chamber.
A pair of beaded slippers sewn by the bride herself would be worn for the first time on the third day of the wedding, and thereafter worn on less ceremonial occasions and eventually becoming casual footwear.
In the 1940s interest in traditional Nyonya embroidery waned and influenced by Western fashion many women were married in white wedding gowns and western footwear. With the resurgence in all things Nyonya in the late 1970s traditional methods of beading and embroidery came back into fashion.Slippers (pair), leather/cardboard/cloth/hemp/metal thread/beads, with embroidered uppers, Nyonya women, Malacca, Malaysia, c.1900.
Pair of slippers (kasut kodok or 'frog shoes') with covered toe and open back. The flat leather soles rising at the toes are made with layers of cardboard and edged with silk braid. They are stitched with twine and nailed to the uppers. The inner sole is made of red leather and the uppers lining of red cotton. The uppers have been hand embroidered while being loosely stretched over a wooden frame. Pieces of coloured velvet material have been glued to the silk base to provide a varied and colourful background for the embroidery for which shaped pieces of cardboard act as a form. Silver and gold metallic thread and silk thread embroidery, sequins, and beads are incorporated in the design of 2 seated rabbits on either side of the central quatrefoil motif together with a scrolling foliate design. A semi-circular toe piece provides a distinctive shape for the slippers.
I used this tutorial after being inspired by this photo. The fabric came from my stash and it only took about 45 minutes.
More night silliness experiments.
Train 565 from Castlecliff threads its way past the ferry terminal into Wellington behind 'proper' power.
DC 4605 and DXB 5051, July 5 2016. A bit blurry because its .4 of a sec handheld.
Made with this cute tute- www.sewmamasew.com/2011/01/travel-sewing-case-tutorial/ I made it a bit bigger and with 2 elastics to hold it closed, but otherwise I followed the tute.
Each one is carefully handsculpted to be unique. and you get a set of 5 plus a little heart pin cushion for only 5 bucks??? say whaaaat? that's right.
Ceremonial rite in which the young Brahmin boy is invested with the sacred thread and initiated into the Gayathri - the Holiest of all mantras in the legacy of the Rishis.
this dress was made 9 years ago for my youngest daughter ( who is in this picture) for her 1st birthday someone asked to see this so I am posting it now I also made the slip in this and the thread was a thrift store find to make the dress sorry I scanned this in and it looks like my scanner needs a cleaning
Struggling with the whole magenta color! When taking this I thought it was magenta-ish. But now it looks purple! No outdoor photo for me today. So I used a metal cookie tin as my background and thread on a vintage bill stacker.
These are peruvian style earrings with part of my girlfriend soul and art.
Hope you like them!
Made by Albena Ivanova (CacophonyArtShop)
In honor of Thread the Needle Day, why not make this sweet little spool to help thread your sewing needle? Make it on my blog!
One of three boxes that house my collection of embroidery thread - used for friendship bracelets when I was younger, and later for actual embroidery. View the whole series
These are the colors I would use to paint the ocean. :)
Hand woven with natural dyes in Williamsburg. All natural except the urine they use to add so the thread would retain it's color over time.
This shows just some of my thread collection.
I recently won an embroidery competition and the prize was £100 worth of threads. Help.
My son is a fly tier. Much of his bedroom is devoted to this pastime. Among his supplies are several dozen spools of thread in all shades of the rainbow.
Our Daily Challenge: Pastime
My grandmother died over 30 years ago, and I inherited an old pine dresser that held her sewing supplies. I'm afraid to unspool these, the threads might fall apart.
Here they are, the nipple colour finalists. if you don't feel properly represented here (and I'll admit I was buying them for Old Man Hanson who is clearly caucasian with olive undertones), please feel free to email me (feel free to include pantone numbers but not photos thanks)