I am delighted to announce the first pair of woven footwear from India (catalog #I-4), a gift from my colleague Pierre Goloubinoff.  Pierre and his daughter visited this past summer the Leh District of the states of Jammu and Kashmir in Northern India.  Pierre purchased these woven shoes from a merchant in the town.  The shoes were woven from hemp and the vamps were made by crochet work using commercially dyed yarn.  This is a particularly interesting part of the world for our studies of weaving and human migration since the region around Leh was a crossroads of the ancient Silk Road thousands of years ago.  The areas in which sandals are still woven extends from Nepal to western Pakistan in the populated valleys at the foot of the Himalayas.  There are additional styles of woven footwear in this region and we hope to add to the Collection from this region in the future.