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  2. Shoemaking - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut of shoemakers from Frankfurt am Main, 1568. Two shoemakers in Vietnam in 1923. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed]).

  3. Boot and shoe clicker - Wikipedia

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    A boot and shoe clicker is the person who cuts the uppers for boots or shoes from a skin of leather or piece of man-made material (usually from a bulk roll). This includes all components of the upper, including linings, facings, stiffeners, reinforcements for eyelets and zip-protectors.

  4. Goodyear welt - Wikipedia

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    The Goodyear welt process is a machine-based alternative to the traditional hand-welted method (c. 1500) for the manufacture of footwear, allowing them to be resoled repeatedly. The upper part of the shoe is shaped over the last and fastened on by sewing a leather, linen or synthetic strip (also known as the "welt") to the inner and upper sole ...

  5. Chris Francis - Wikipedia

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    Francis is a self-taught shoe designer and began creating wearable art in 2011 after seeing a guest shoemaker hand stitch shoes at a Louis Vuitton event in Los Angeles. [2] Without a proper leather sewing machine Francis did all the work by hand, and in the beginning he did not have proper shoe lasts, so he carved them himself in a park.

  6. Cordwainer - Wikipedia

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    A cordwainer making shoes, Capri, Italy A cordwainer's desk in Hamburg, in the background a shelf with lasts Tombstone of the shoemaker Xanthippos. Marble, Greek artwork, ca. 430–420 BC. From Athens. A cordwainer (/ ˈ k ɔːr d ˌ w eɪ n ər /) is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather.

  7. Jan Ernst Matzeliger - Wikipedia

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    Jan Ernst Matzeliger (September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889) was a Surinamese-American inventor whose automated lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes. The United Shoe Machinery Corporation company was founded to make his shoe making devices.

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