Boot Making and Mending - Including Repairing, Lasting, And Finishing

First published in 1898, this volume is a complete guide to making and mending shoes and boots.

"This treatise on Boot Making and Mending is issued in the confident belief that it is not only thoroughly practical and relaible, but is so simply worded that even inexperienced readers can understand it."

Contents include:

Repairing Heels and Half-soling
Patching Boots and Shoes
Re-welting and Re-soling
Boot Making
Lasting the Upper
Sewing and Stitching
Making the Heel
Knifing and Finishing
Making Riveted Boots and Shoes