Tiger Lilies

Bespoke Western Boots designed and built entirely by Sarah Madeleine T. GUERIN of Saboteuse. The boots have dark green glazed buffalo vamps and counter covers. The tigerlily blossoms are hand-dyed and sealed French calf crust leather inlays and are hand-embroidered with French silk threads. The tops are a dark green glazed kid leather. The closed blooms are a sueded kid leather overlay. The heels and soles and structure of the boot are J.R. Rendenbach vegetable tanned leather hand cut and burnished using traditional tools from circa 1900. The soles are hand-stitched in a welted construction. Suzanne O'Neill, a patron of Saboteuse, commisioned the boots specific theme "I want to walk through a field of tiger lilies in these boots" for design direction; all material considerations and the execution of the design were at the discretion of the artist.