Publisher's Synopsis
Vintage book. Lessons on repairing and making shoes. Contents: PREFACE 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 Halfsoiing a Sewed Shoe Preparing an Insole for a Sewed Shoe Patching a Shoe at the Tip Halfsoiing a Turned Shoe List of Tools Necessary to have
