Traveling Slippers and Espadrilles Vintage Sewing Pattern

Slippers and Espadrilles

These slippers and espadrilles will be a fine addition to pack for your upcoming summer travels.

The patterns today come from a 1940’s sewing book that was found in many women’s homes during this era. Titled Encyclopedia of Modern Sewing it does cover almost every aspect you would need to learn the craft. Along with the many teaching tools in this book are patterns for sewing.

Traveling Slippers

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Traveling Slippers Pattern and Instructions PDF

The two sewing patterns for today are traveling slippers and ribbon espadrilles. The patterns are on a 1 inch grid and will need to be enlarged. You’ll find the PDF below with instructions for enlarging a pattern.

Also there are a couple illustrations in the book that the patterns point to that have been scanned and put into PDF format along with enlarging info.

Ribbon Espadrilles

espadrilles sewing pattern photo

Espadrilles Pattern and Instructions PDF

Below are the instructions only for the espadrilles. The PDF file includes more information.

Espadrilles sewing pattern
You’ll find the figures referred to in the PDF links below

Download Instructions: Right-Click on the image. Select either “save link as” or “save image as” depending on what browser you are using. Or simply click on it, it will open in a new window and save it from there.

PDFs of the Figures Referred to in the Instructions

You’ll notice that these patterns and instructions refer to several illustrated figures on the book. You can find them here:

How to Enlarge a Pattern, Turn and Whip Stitch PDF

On these pages is a great illustrated tutorial on Bias Strips:

Slippers Figures 48 to 54 Bias Strips PDF

PDF Download Instructions

The patterns are in PDF format so to download it you’ll need the Adobe Reader software on your computer. Most computers come with it, but it is free and can be found here.

Download Instructions: Right-Click the link and select either “save target as” or “save link as” depending your browser. Also, you can click on it, it will open in another window and there you can save or print it.

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