Custom Make your Own Shoes and Handbags: A Simplified Method of Making Women's Shoes and Handbags at Home

By Mary Wales Loomis

Book Overview

Paperback book with instructions of how to make shoes and purses This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517531399
• ISBN13: 9780517531396
• Release Date: May 1978
• Publisher: Crown Publishers
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Step-by-Step Instructions with diagrams, illustrations & photos

From back cover: "With the prices of women's shoes so high, here is a practical, easy-to-use, money-saving book that can show you how to custom-make beautiful shoes for yourself. The author has developed a unique method of making a comfortable, permanent last from an old pair of good-fitting shoes. From this last you can make your own up-to-date, fashionable shoes. Her method requires neither nailing nor machinery, only an ordinary sewing machine, to stitch the upper parts of the shoes, and shoe-maker's cement, to assemble the parts. The author also describes ways of making your own lasts by casting your feet in plaster of paris, and ways to make and label your master patterns. She tells how to choose material for the shoes: fabric, leather, and suede. Then, in easy, step-by-step instructions, you are shown how to construct the entire shoe: the upper, the heel, and the sole. The next section adds the decorative touch - making insole, adding trims, bows, and buckles. Also included are directions for making sandals, envelope bags, and evening bags."