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Shoe making is a traditional handicraft profession, which has now been largely superseded by industrial manufacture of footwear.

Shoemakers or cord wainers (cobblers being, historically, those that repair shoes) may produce a range of footwear items, including shoes, boots, sandals, clogs and moccasins. Such items are generally made of leather, wood, rubber, plastic, jute or other plant material, and often consist of multiple parts for better durability of the sole, stitched to a leather upper.

Most shoemakers use a last—made traditionally of iron or wood, but now often of plastic— on which to form the shoe. Some lasts are straight, while curved lasts come in pairs: one for left shoes, the other for right shoes. The shoe making profession makes a number of appearances in popular culture, such as in stories about shoemaker’s elves, and the proverb “The shoemaker’s children are often shoeless”. The patron saint of shoemakers is Saint Crispin.

Traditional shoemakers used to use more than 15 different techniques of making shoes. Some of the: pegged construction, English welted (only for machine-made versions they use “good year welted”), goyser welted, Norwegian, stitchdown, turnout, German sewn, moccasin, bolognese stitched, blake-stitched, etc.

Some types of ancient and traditionally-made shoes include:
Furs wrapped around feet, and sandals wrapped over them: used by Romans fighting in northern Europe. Clogs: wooden shoes, often filled with straw to warm the feet. Moccasins: simple shoes, often without the durability of joined shoes (although different types of leather have different wear characteristics).

Article from : wikipedia

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