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: "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 to McKay
Sawed Shoe is Made", 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.