I Hand Made Medieval Shoes!- Historical Shoemaking

I’ve been practicing historical shoemaking since 2012, but have never worked so far back in time as this pair of shoes. However, it turns out that the 15th century isn’t that different than the 18th century in terms of construction techniques! The trade of shoemaking is one of the oldest official trades and its methods of hand sewing were well established and refined even by this point in history. Shoemaking is its own distinct trade which depending on numerous other trades to exist. Historically some one
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