I have had the good fortune to collaborate with Renee Canady – an accomplished leather worker – on making a pair of sandals, to show what can be done with carving and tooling on footwear – that isn’t a pair of cowboy boots! She did the carving, tooling, painting and dyeing, and I assembled the …
shoemaking materials
materials that may be used in shoemaking
Concern and response regarding use of chrome-tanned leather
Greetings all, I just received this email, and consider the topic so important that I am answering it in this blog-post. I have removed the name of the sender. HI SHARON, I really appreciate your shoe designs and patterns and your generosity in making them available online. I’m hoping to get back to experimenting with …
Home Depot stocks soling for kids’ shoes!
They didn’t stock this for use as soling, of course, but the grey hall runner (sku – 195-339) found on a big roll in the carpet department) Multy Home Gray 2 ft. 2 in. x Your Choice Length Track Runner looks like a good material to use as children’s shoe soling. At $2.27/26″ x 12″, …