I know there have been several shoe shine threads of late, but I don’t recall this specific question being asked or answered:
What is an efficient way to polish/shine a shoe with contrasting stitching without staining the contrast stitching?
For example, I have a pair of these Martegani shoes:
I’d prefer to keep the lighter stitching as it is, but am not sure how to apply polish without making the stitching the same color as the polish.