1. Cutting the leather molds for the shoe or boot 2. Sew the quarters and the vamp [upper front part of a boot or shoe] 3. Lay the quarters and vamp on the wooden last to mold. 4. … See more

A hundred and fifty years of development in the colonies saw the distinct growth of a varied class of customer and the dramatic shift in the distinction of cordwainer. By the later part o… See more

St. Crispin is a day of feast, traditionally celebrated throughout Europe on October 25, is in honor of the 3rdcentury cordwainers Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of co… See more

Not until the mid-nineteenth century, did shoes begin to be manufactured with a right and left shoe. In 1828, a foreman at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, named Tho… See more