Looking closely at boots
Number Ten flame stitch / toe bug & medallion atlas
Number Ten is shared craft language, not a barcode. The Museum of Texas Tech University Lusk exhibit documents innumerable Number Ten / inverted-flame variations; a Lusk Pattern is Lusk’s variation — not automatic Lusk lasting. Evelyn Green stitched a Number Ten related to Lusk’s, followed Lusk in 1946, and later taught James Leddy’s daughter Debby the Lusk inverted-flame pattern. Related vamp grammar: bug-and-wrinkle / medallion (Texas Monthly 2002). Flame alone is not a maker stamp.