Carpeted shoemaker

[Nova67]

I have just found a reference to the fact that they were "Carpet shoes were made from remnants of different coloured carpet. List shoes were made from fabric remnants. Both were worn as house shoes and sometimes as overshoes out-of-doors"
Source is: Exiled: The Port Arthur Convict Photographs - Page 83 by Edwin Barnard

[Nova67]

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kFO-IsXQnp0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0642277095&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1d5JVd3lMsSxmwXSxoDwAw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=carpet%20shoes&f=false

I hope you can access on Google Books.  My server was being dodgy.  You need page 76 and 83 to search for "carpet shoes".  Should both be of interest.

[Lilibet]

Thanks Nova67.  I just Googled and read the pages in the book.  So now the mystery is solved.

My thanks to everyone.

Regards
Lilibet

[Nova67]

That's ok Ma'am

By the way the patron saint of shoemakers is St Crispin - as told to me on another thread.  Some cryptic trivia about shoemaker references.

[stanmapstone]

From the OED carpet slipper   n. a slipper the uppers of which were orig. made of carpet-like material

Stan