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Project: Poulaines
Feb. 9th, 2007 03:28 pmRecall from my last post on shoemaking resources, this semester I am teaching a class in shoe topics. Finally, a post about our very first project!
Our first unit of study was of an introductory nature--learning the vocabulary of shoe terminology, basic cobbling skills like repairing damaged shoes, operating an industrial patcher machine, and rubberizing soles, etc. We also learned about the cordwainer's trade--building shoes from "scratch". (Vocab: Cobblers repair shoes, cordwainers build them.) Students have, in the course of the first unit, repaired one pair of damaged shoes, rubberized one pair of leather-soled shoes, and patterned and built a pair of simple shoes. In this case, "simple" was defined as having a leather sole and a leather or cloth upper.
I do the projects a step ahead of my students for my classes, so they always have an actual physical example to look at in the production process. My simple shoe style was what is commonly known as an elf shoe: a curly-toed slipper. Some proper names for this style are poulaine, pike, and crackowe.
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Our first unit of study was of an introductory nature--learning the vocabulary of shoe terminology, basic cobbling skills like repairing damaged shoes, operating an industrial patcher machine, and rubberizing soles, etc. We also learned about the cordwainer's trade--building shoes from "scratch". (Vocab: Cobblers repair shoes, cordwainers build them.) Students have, in the course of the first unit, repaired one pair of damaged shoes, rubberized one pair of leather-soled shoes, and patterned and built a pair of simple shoes. In this case, "simple" was defined as having a leather sole and a leather or cloth upper.
I do the projects a step ahead of my students for my classes, so they always have an actual physical example to look at in the production process. My simple shoe style was what is commonly known as an elf shoe: a curly-toed slipper. Some proper names for this style are poulaine, pike, and crackowe.
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