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I love it when I pull a last and the boots sit up nice and straight and balanced. Some boots seem to be born under a dark cloud and they fight me at every step, while others are happy and cooperative from very beginning (like this pair).

It’s easy to call this fate or luck, but you know the real reason? Patterning. Patterning. Patterning. When you take the time to g...


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Heels

Today has been about building heels. Also, in the case of the black boots, today has been about trying not to tweak my back getting the lasts out. I do have a mechanical last puller but one of the lasts in the black boots decided it wanted to wrest...


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Soles

I’m the US rep for a small family-owned tannery in Devon, England. Their sole and insole leather is pit-tanned with oak bark and it’s the best. I don’t talk about it because I sell it; I sell it because it’s wonderful and I use nothing else.

The first three photos demonstrate a really cool feature of the Baker sole leather. In the first the soles are almost dry but ...


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New book

Craft in America’s beautiful new book “Handcrafted Objects: Hand Work That Made America” arrived in my mail today. My boots are featured in the Adorn section.


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Lessons

The stitched boot tops are completed and I am celebrating. I did the two front panels in one day and then had to go home that evening and lay on the couch with an ice pack on my eyes because of eye strain. I learned my lesson and only worked on the back panels for an hour or two at a time, so they took several days to finish.

Someone asked me what this stitching tec...


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