Shoes and Patłens
100 Front-laced ankle-shoe (late 14th-century).
The upper was originally madę in one piece (for a similar cutting-pattem see Fig. 106), but sińce the toe has been destroyed it is now broken into two. The large reinforcement patch on the inner side is unusual: the butt-stitched seam shows that it could not have been added after the shoe was lasted (as the reinforcement on the outer side probably was) but that it was included when the main seam of the shoe was being sewn - either as an intentional part of the original construction or as a major repair. The tongue was sewn edge-to-edge with binding-stitch on the inner side only. Notę the pair of bifurcated, latchet-type laces. Scalę 1:3.