High and Late Medieval Shoes Making Medieval Clothing Yourself - High and Late Medieval Shoes offers a guide for people with a talent for craftsmanship who want to try their hand at shoemaking themselves. Master shoemaker Stefan von der Heide provides an overview of the materials and tools used to make shoes in medieval Europe, enabling the reader to make various shoe and boot models themselves. The author also presents material recommendations and suitable sources of supply, in addition to various types of shoes and different ways of making them.
The author:
The author Stefan von der Heide, born in 1959, acquired the foundations for his current work during his training as an orthopaedic shoemaker. Soon after passing his master shoemaker's examination in 1993, he created his first reconstructions of historical shoes. For several years now, his workshop has been located in a craftsman's workshop in the picturesque courtyard of the Old Castle in Neustadt an der Aisch.
