How to make shoes on your own and resolve problems?I have a great post for you today and as always it’s all about solving shoemaking problems. Talking about solving problems I want to start this post with an exciting announcement, something that I am working on it right now and it will be soon launched on […]
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When you want to make sandals you need to have the last of the sandal. Then to develop patterns of the insole, midsole, and outsole you make an exact copy of the bottom of your last. This is how it’s done in every factory production, and this is how you will work as well. So […]
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A couple of weeks ago I ask you to vote for an Oxford shoe model that we going to learn next. After few comments and many email responses, I’m here to announce style A as a winner. Although style B was in the race as well, obviously A was a favorite of many. The first […]
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What tools do you need to get started shoe making courses online? Many of you, dear readers, asked me what tools and materials you need to get started learning in my shoe making courses online.”Better to see once than hear a hundred times”, so I made for you a short video to show you all tools […]
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In shoemaking as in every other craft, you learn from the bottom. You start from the basic and you move on to gain more experience, more knowledge to get you to make the shoes that you want to make. But how can you actually use shoemaking skills to create your shoes?From my experience basic knowledge in […]
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This week we continue to talk about making a collection or your creative approach to making your own shoes. As the design is a most common way to approach a collection, in this post we will talk about making your collection through the pattern. Pattern making isn’t mechanical work or at least it doesn’t […]
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Creating footwear collection is not an easy task as collection must have one common theme to unify it. To make this process easier designers use one or more elements that are repeated in every model in this collection. It makes not only designer work easier but actually and more important it works better for […]
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Do you want to become a footwear designer? Where should you learn this profession? The options are limitless, there is a hand full of short courses, long courses, universities that offer footwear design degrees, workshops etc. Since I started blogging I’ve been asked many times to guide where is the best place to learn footwear design, […]
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