[Regia-NA] Embroidery on shoes

[Jan Ward]

Steve Etheridge wrote:

 <Some top bands are 
deliberately 
sewn onto the upper “furry side out”, perhaps for
comfort, perhaps for 
show. 
  These top bands were sometimes extended to form the
flaps for closing 
the 
shoes.  This appears to have been the C10th form of
decoration, which 
disappears in the C11th and probably never reached
Dublin.>

I'm getting a picture of a fur cuff at the top of the
shoe. Is this what you are describing, or am I not
reading right?
Jan/AElfwyn