If you want to make court shoes like flat ballet shoes, pump shoes, loafers, moccasins etc.. You must know and use these 2 small improvements you need to do in your pattern, and that is exactly what I will teach you in this post.
2 Important Lines To make Court Shoes Pattern
You need to correct the back line of the shoe pattern and you must fix the central line in the front part.
- Back line correction to make court shoes with a perfect fit
It is very important to consider the stretchiness of leather when you make court shoes, because the throat line of this footwear type must lay tightly on the shoe last.
If it will do that...
Then it will lay tightly on your feet as well.
During lasting, the leather upper and lining stretches and becomes larger . As a result the throat line moves closer to the toe and become more opened.
In the making of the court shoes without any fastaning like in the Oxfrod shoes and Derby shoes, the fitting of the throat line is very important.
That’s why you should reduce the back line in certain way, to to consider the stretchiness of the leather, to get good fitting of the throat line, and to reduce folds creation in the bottom heel edge, during lasting.
The creation of folds in the bottom edge of the heel is one of the most common mistakes that beginners do in shoemaking. In most of the cases to fix it, you just need to correct the back line (heel line).
All these improvements you will achieve with small correction of the back line, to make perfect court shoes.
Learn how to do it in the shoemaking tutorial above, step by step.
2. The Improvement Of the Central Line
If your shoe last has extended curved shape in the toe area, the central line of your masking tape shoe pattern (after taken it off from the last) will be not straight but arched.
To make the full shoe pattern of court shoes (and in this case not only the court shoes) you will need to correct this arched central line and make it straight. If you want to learn more about different pattern making techniques, techniques to solve most of your shoe making problems, to know which tools you need for pattern making, you are invited to visit this directory: "Shoe pattern and templates".
Learn how to do it in the video above.
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