Chopine’s shoes, a WIP part 2
Here are some pictures of my SecondLife reproduction of an actual, extant chopine.
Here’s the original Chopine which dates to c. 1600, from the Ashmolean Museum, London, England:
That Chopine is covered with silk which was embroidered with colored and silver threads – just like this Court Mantua, which dates to c. 1740-45 and which I photographed at the Victoria and Albert museum, London:
From my photos of that Court Mantua, I photosourced the textures for my reproduction of the above shown Chopine.
This is what the finished textures look like when applied to the sculpties in my texturing software:
The trims around the vamp are still missing and so is the insole (which is actually another sculpty), but I guess you can already see how beautiful the textures turned out 