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The word patten probably derives from the Old French patte meaning hoof or paw. [1] It was also spelled patyn and in other ways. [2] Historically, pattens were sometimes used to protect hose without an intervening pair of footwear and thus the name was sometimes extended to similar shoes like clogs.
Reconstruction of a 16th-century Venetian chopine. On display at the Shoe Museum in Lausanne. Calcagnetti (Chopine)- Correr Museum. A chopine is a type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Chopines were originally used as a patten, clog, or overshoe to protect shoes and dresses from mud and street soil.
According to the census of 1851, Manfield was a ‘patent shoe manufacturer employing 200 hands’. Between 1857 and 1859 company built a big warehouse on Campbell Square, Northampton with installed closing machinery, thus inaugurating the indoor factory system for boot and shoe making. This building was demolished in 1982.
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Arnolfini's painting of 1434, depicting pattens taken off inside a house.. The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.The Pattenmakers, who were incorporated by Royal Charter in 1670 [1] and granted livery status in 1717, [2] were makers of wooden-soled overshoes.
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
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