Top products from r/shoemaking
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1. Footwear Design (Portfolio Skills: Fashion & Textiles)
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Used Book in Good Condition
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4. Co-link 2PCS DIY Natural Solid Wood Leathercraft Round Wood Edge Slicker Multi-size Burnisher for Leather Working
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Show Reddit reviews5. Stick-on Suede Soles with industrial-strength adhesive backing. Resole old dance shoes or turn sneakers into perfect dance shoes. [SUEDE-M, SUEDE-XL]
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Turn any pair of shoes into suede-soled dance shoes, or replace worn-out suede soles on existing dance shoes.Enjoy the ideal friction properties of suede soles when dancing on well-maintained and clean wood dance floors - at a fraction of the price of new suede-soled dance shoes. Suede soles should ...
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Hi! Sorry for the delay, I had neglected the moderation queue.
If you are just curious to see starting points, I can recommend (in no particular order):
But these are only useful to know what making a shoe it's like. The only way to learn (without wasting countless hours fiddling around) is to attend a course. There are many shoemakers offering courses (yes, it doesn't look like this but it does, once you know :) ) Marcell gives classes in the US, James and Deborah in UK, and as far as I know there are also teachers in Italy and Spain. Of course I think in most European countries you could find shoemaking teachers, too, but I don't know many more examples.
Also, making a shoe from start to finish involves many things: design, patternmaking and construction. And if you work from start to finish, you can't design something you can't build, so a good tradeoff of abilities has to come somewhere. As you get better in construction, you know what you can design. Patternmaking is another thing, since it can be taught kind of "on its own," but requires also a knowledge of the design and the construction process.
If you need anything else, don't doubt about replying to this thread, I'll be faster this time!
Try one of these . I use them for finishing veg tan leather belts and they burnish the edge really well. They are also fairly cheap unless you buy the nicer wood quality ones. I think the best wood for them are Koa or something?
Dance Suede and leather soles are both much thicker but that sheet may do the job.
Another option is that these products already exist.
Tim Skyrme’s Shoemaking book. This will at least cover the shoemaking part. Whole industry is a different story. Aki Choklat’s Footwear Design goes into a bit more industry elements.