How to Repair Shoes

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: "e;The Proper Way to keep a Shoeshop"e;,"e;Making a Waxed End"e;, "e;Some Points to bear in mind about Waxed Ends"e;, "e;To Make the Plain Stitch"e;, "e;The Study of Different Awls"e;, "e;How to Sharpen Knives"e;, "e;The Square-awl like the Knife and the Chisel"e;, "e;The Divisions of a Last"e;, "e;The French Hammer, Welt-knife and Rhan-file"e;, "e;Repairing a Heel"e;, "e;How to McKay Sawed Shoe is Made"e;, 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.