大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 12月29日 21時07分

These wooden bath clogs (nalın or qabqab) are inlaid with pewter and mother-of-pearl. The leather straps are covered in gold-embroidered velvet. At 26cm high they lifted the wearer above the wet and dirty floor, but a personal attendant was needed for support. Their Arabic name, qabqab, derives from the clacking noise they made on the marble floors.

Our new free display of footwear from the Islamic world presents a variety of regional styles, materials, embellishments and shoe manufacturing traditions. It examines shoes as status symbols, class indicators and diplomatic gifts. Together, these shoes express identities, beliefs, traditions and lifestyles of people from across the Islamic world. They represent the significance of footwear in Islamic social and cultural life and the impact of international trade and politics on footwear fashions.

Woman’s stilted clogs made of wood, pewter, mother-of-pearl, leather, velvet and gilt thread and spangles. Turkey, 1800–1850.

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