Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) persian At the age of 18

At the age of 18

with masking taped edges matching the darker edges of the drawing

and I'd think

Satisfying form

but quite fine

Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) persian At the age of 18A 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