Below are images of my first ever hand made shoe, made by me. It's a single shoe that is very simple. I cut the pattern from a pair of brogues I was wearing at the time and sewed it just using the straight sewer.
There were two main aims in this experiment. The first was to test this technique called Veldstschoen Construction. I read about it in my shoe-making manual from the library, it is also known as the stitched-down method because the lasting (seam) allowance is turned out and stitched to the sole, much like a desert boot style. I saw it as a really useful technique that could easily apply to the less conventional shoe making methods I will probably employ, such as hammering my shoes to their soles... The second aim was very straight-forward, simply to see whether I actually had any hope in making shoes. If this little exercise was a miserable failure, I was ready to abandon my persuit of shoemaking. But, while this shoe is not perfect it's a start that I'm not too unhappy about.
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