- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
How to Repair Shoes
About this book
How to Repair Shoes is a comprehensive guide to shoe-mending with chapters on necessary equipment, how to use the tools, preparing materials, running a shop, and much more. With helpful illustrations and simple instructions, this timeless guide will be of considerable utility to modern readers with a practical interest in shoe repair. Contents include: "The Proper Way to keep a Shoeshop","Making a Waxed End", "Some Points to bear in mind about Waxed Ends", "To Make the Plain Stitch", "The Study of Different Awls", "How to Sharpen Knives", "The Square-awl like the Knife and the Chisel", "The Divisions of a Last", "The French Hammer, Welt-knife and Rhan-file", "Repairing a Heel", "How to McKay Sawed Shoe is Made", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of shoemaking.
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Yes, you can access How to Repair Shoes by F. L. West in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Fashion Design. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Preface
- A History of Shoemaking
- Contents
- The Proper Way to keep a Shoeshop
- Making a Waxed End
- Some Points to bear in mind about Waxed Ends
- To make the Plain Stitch
- The Study of Different Awls
- How to Sharpen Knives
- The Square-awl like the Knife and the Chisel
- The Divisions of a Last
- The French Hammer, Welt-knife and Rhan-file
- Repairing a Heel
- How a McKay Sewed Shoe is made
- Preparation of Sole Leather
- Halfsoling a Shoe (nailed)
- The Back and Lock Stitches
- The Underneath Patch and the Backbone Stitch
- Shoe Leathers
- Putting on a Cement Patch
- Halfsoling a Sewed Shoe
- Preparing an Insole for a Sewed Shoe
- Patching a Shoe at the Tip
- Halfsoling a Turned Shoe
- List of Tools Necessary to have