book series on Appalachian craft and culture
Issue 6
Shoemaking
- begins on page 109
- tanner would take hides from customers, tan the whole thing, then give the customer one side and keep the other
- describes the tanning process
- Derby brogans
- fully pegged construction
- roughout uppers
- peg rasp
- heel shave
- crab-style shank lasters shown
- round knife
- draw gauge
- Plate 108: tool for rounding strips of leather
- thread making
- bristles
- backseamed or single-piece quarters
- stitching horse
- all stitching by hand, so minimized the number of seams
- pricking irons fashioned from a dinner knife
- “I Seam” [quarter seam]
- with or without heel counter covers
- saddle stitch
- string lasting shown in Plate 131, page 133
- making pegs by hand by splitting, Plates 134–136, pages 134–135