One side of a pair of boots, most likely worn by women from the city of Yarkand (also known as Shache in Chinese) at festive occasions. It is made of leather lined with purple and brown woollen felt appliqué with elaborately embroidered and heavily couched floral motifs in a combination of silk, metal, gold and woollen threads on its upper and its cuff, with a blue-painted hemp layered at the top of the pitched cuff, a front vamp lined with magenta-dyed cotton/woollen ends, and edged with chagrin (or shagreen) between its upper and wooden sole and 4cm-high heel painted with decorative marks, and layered with leather at the bottom. Woman's boot, one of a pair, leather silver, embroidered, from Shache (Yarkand), China, ca. 1873