51/701/1-2

Pattens are wooden shoes with an iron hoop beneath that were used by most countrywomen as overshoes to keep their feet out of the mud in the farmyard and around the dairy. These pattens have wooden soles, and would have had leather toe caps, side pieces and laces. The soles are riveted to oval irons on short legs.

1 pair of pattens: wood; metal; leather; fair condition- one has side piece missing and both laces; other has most of toe cap, part of side piece and both laces missing

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'These are overshoes worn by most country women before the introduction of goloshes [sic] to raise their feet out of the mud of the farmyard and lanes. // They have wooden soles, rather crudely shaped, measuring 9.5 inches in length. Oval shaped irons on two short legs are riveted to the bottom of the soles and leather toe caps and side pieces are nailed to the sides, covered with a reinforcement of a thin strip of metal. One patten has one of the side pieces missing and both laces. The other has the best part of the toe cap, part of one side piece and both laces missing. // See also 51/700/1-2L.', No Lavinia Smith No. recorded., Heritage of the Hendreds Exhibition Catalogue 1969 - 'Catalogue of Exhibits // Number 33 // Pattens // Lent by The Museum of English Rural Life' (The description in the catalogue could also be in reference to 51/702/1-2, 51/786/1-2 and 51/700/1-2)

Wood, Metal, Leather

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)