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Shoemaking Links

(See also Leatherworking Links)

Period Examples

  • 14th century shoe
  • Leather shoes recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose
  • Medieval Shoes from the Bata Museum Collection: Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3
  • 17th Century Shoes & Boots
  • Shoes depicted in paintings
  • Pictish Shoe
  • Venetian Chopines

    Articles

  • Anglo-Saxon and Viking Leather Working
  • Footwear in Period
  • Footwear of the Middle Ages
  • The History of Your Shoes
  • Leather and Leather-Working from Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York
  • Leather Bibliography: Shoes
  • Shoes and Boots
  • A Short History of Medieval Footwear
  • Stuart Shoes and Shoemaking
  • Viking Footwear
  • Viking Shoes

    Pattens, Clogs, and Galoshes

  • Footwear of the Middle Ages: Pattens
  • His Pattens and Her Pattens in the Arnolfini Portrait
  • Wooden Pattens

    Work from the "Current Middle Ages"

  • Anglo-Saxon and Viking Leather Working
  • A Burgundian Court Shoe
  • Ghillies
  • Embroidered Shoes by Lord Henry Percivale Kempe
  • Late 14th Century Shoe with Poulaine
  • Medieval Male's Outfit
  • Reproducing a Late 14th Century Shoe using Patterns Taken from Extant Examples
  • 7th Century Anglo-Saxon Shoes with a photo
  • Shoes and Pattens and Viking Shoes by Bronach Nĺlbrjótr
  • 13th Century Footwear with a photo

    General Patterns and Methods

  • Anna's Shoe Making Compendium (PDF)
  • Costume Design: Footwear
  • Felt Boots and Felt Slippers
  • LeatherCrafter's Corner
  • Leatherworking - a basic Viking shoe
  • Making Shoe Patterns
  • Poor People's Poulaines
  • Reproducing a Late 14th Century Shoe using Patterns Taken from Extant Examples
  • Shoe from Medieval York (Never-Fails Simple Shoe Pattern)
  • Simple Sandals
  • Soft Boots
  • Stuart Shoes and Shoemaking
  • Viking Footwear

    Patterns and Methods for Celtic Footwear

  • Early Medieval Irish Shoes
  • Footwear of the Middle Ages
  • Gillie Brogues

    Lasts

  • Lasts
  • Lasts, History and Use in Medieval Shoes
  • Shoe Lasts

    Stefan's Florilegium

  • Shoemaking
  • Shoes

    The Tournaments Illuminated Index

  • Garb: Footwear

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