Sunday, 14 December 2008

hand made shoes

I haven't spoken to any shoe makers yet but just wait and I will. anyway i wanted to see if i could make some shoes out of intuition and observation. So my boyfriend had to lend me his feet. I bought some stiffish cotton and just sort of cut it up and made it fit round his foot and held it in place with masking tape. But then i made it into a pattern of 3 parts: 2 heal parts and the over the toe area. Glued it all together and stapled it to an insole. did this for both feet - just reflected the pattern. then i added a tongue and some laces and voila a very rough pair of shoes, but a pair of shoes none the less.

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