blog series by Mikhail Bliskavka of Arno Shoes
Lasting the Toe
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-1-lasting-the-toe-1
- Stefano Bemer shoemaking school learning process
- blocking
- practicing toe lasting with scraps of upper leather and lining tacked to the top of a last
- lasts the lining separately with contact cement
- leather toe puff
Creating a Holdfast
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-2-creating-a-holdfas
- 7mm from the rim of the insole
- incision roughly 3mm or half the thickness deep, angled outward, so base of holdfast thicker than top
- channel opener
- 45° feather
- marking holes
Making Thread and Welting
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-3-making-thread-and-welting
- Superior Ramie thread
- calculating length
- 4-5 spans
- thread making
- tapering edges
- shoemaker’s wax
- metal bristles
- welting
Outsole Stitching
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-4-outsole-stitching
Finishing
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-5-finishing
Bevelled Waist and Making a Heel
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-5-finishing
Derby Shoe Pattern
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-7-derby-shoe-pattern
Derby Upper Assembly
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-8-derby-upper-assembly
Boot Patterns
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-9-boot-patterns
Norvegese Construction
https://www.arnoshoes.com/blogs/news/shoemaking-school-pt-10-norvegese-construction