How to cut leather insoles for sandals using Simple Tools I love sandals, especially with the leather insoles and with the toe strap in front and I am sure you too. Do you? If yes, you will love this post, if not, tune out right now, don’t read it, it’s not for you. In today’s shoe making […]
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Shoemaking Leather Upgrade That You Can Do Shoemaking leather must be from the top quality skins if you want to make beautiful shoes. This is how it suppose to be, but in reality, sometimes it’s hard to source good shoemaking leather. Sometimes it’s even impossible. What do you do then? Work with an ugly piece of […]
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Shoe Pattern Making Tutorial: Draw Beautiful Side Line for Pump Shoes I already made many different shoe pattern making tutorials on how to draw beautiful throat line in court shoes. And in today’s post I want to show you another shoe pattern making tutorial to draw beautiful side line in Pump shoes and in any […]
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Best Shoemaker’s pincers for your craft Shoemaker’s pincers is a necessary tool if you want to make your shoes, real shoes and not some DIY project. You must have shoemaker’s pincers and your shoe lasts. You need it in the process of lasting, where you must pull the edges of the sewn upper and lining of […]
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Simple Knife For Shoemaking Craft In the shoemaking craft, there are many different types of knives that you can work with. But you don’t need to have all of them, especially when you just start learning shoemaking craft, you need to use only few of them. In this post, I am gonna talk with you about […]
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Make Court Shoes: 2 Must Know Improvements 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 […]
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Lasting Allowance in Shoemaking Lasting allowance in shoemaking is an extra material that you need to have in all your shoe patterns in order to attach the edge of the upper and lining to the insole during lasting. How does it work in shoemaking?After you will take off your masking tape pattern from the last […]
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5 Best Shoemaking Hacks of 2019 for Beginners It became already a tradition for me to post each year my best shoemaking tips and hacks. In this new video, we say goodbye to 2018, hello 2019, I prepared for you 5 best shoemaking hacks for beginners. These 5 shoemaking hacks are very simple but so useful and […]
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