They are made to hang on the wall. A large boot like this one has a pocket in the top. This gaudy piece has hot pink cloth with green, blue, red, yellow, and pink beads. Gold and pastel colored beads flow from flower centers. The one on the left features a squirrel and the more common bird decorates the one on the right.
Some people think they hung on a Victorian bedroom wall to hold combs and brushes.
The earliest beaded strawberries, which may date back to the mid 19th century, are filled with emery for sharpening needles. Note how similar the 1899 piece is to the one that incorporates a picture frame one hundred years later. They were made in a factory in Bohemia that closed around 1917. One of the six panels features a goat. Other panels have birds and stylized flowers.