SHOES: components, repair, and making your own from scratch

You can now rent this webinar HERE, for $60, for a rental period of 6 months.

In this 3-hr demonstration over Zoom, Rachel shows a grab-bag of tricks to initiate you into the world of shoe construction. This includes:
• Looking at examples of handmade and factory-made shoes, as well as deconstructed shoes and discussing how and why they were made in a particular way.
• Talking about the various components that make up a shoe, and which items you might use for a shoe project of your own. Materials, sourcing, and tool advice.
• A demo of how to reattach a sock liner on an existing pair of shoes, how to remove a sole from a pair of sandals.
• A demo of stitching leather to leather, adhering leather to leather, cutting leather, etc.
• A demo of how to drape straps over your own foot as you begin a pair of sandals, an ideal first project. A overview of how you wet-form leather around a last to make a pair of shoes as a beginner.

This webinar was streamed live via Zoom from the Fibershed Learning Center, a multi-use space to demonstrate and provide hands-on connections to natural fiber and dye systems.

Proceeds from each event support the class instructor and contribute to Fibershed for educational programming. A portion of the proceeds from each virtual event will also be shared with a local and mission-aligned non-profit organization, selected by the instructor. Currently scheduled online events are listed at fibershed.org/learningcenter.

More info HERE.

For each class hosted at Fibershed, they make a donation to a non-profit that is mission-aligned. In this case I chose Social Justice Sewing Academy: Through a series of hands-on workshops in schools, prisons and community centers across the country, SJSA empowers youth to use textile art as a vehicle for personal transformation and community cohesion and become agents of social change