Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) Indonesian hide fan "the hangman"

"the hangman"

blue long coat

I found it in Maine but might guess it originated in or near Buffalo

and mystery too

I just love it as a found face

Beautiful Old Japanese Shoe Maker's Pattern/Template (Last One) Indonesian hide fan "the hangman"A 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