Shoes: components, repair, and making your own from scratch with Rachel Corry

In May of this year, I went down to the FIbershed Learning Center to demonstrate a grab-bag of tricks to initiate you into the wide world of shoe construction. This 3-hour video includes:

• Looking at examples of deconstructed shoes, factory made shoes, and handmade shoes, and discussing how and why they were made in a particular way.
• Talking about the various components that make up a shoe, and which items you might use for a shoe project of your own. Materials, sourcing, and tool advice.
• Demos of stitching leather to leather, adhering leather to leather, cutting leather, cutting rubber, etc.
• How to drape straps over your own foot as you begin a pair of sandals, an ideal first project.

In order to further support Fibershed’s educational programs, the class video is now on demand.

To rent the video click here. You will rent it from the FLC vimeo site.