1) The late Capt. Peterkin discusses the shoes and boots worn by sailors and soldiers around the world during this volatile period for military footwear. He outlines an era that began with soldiers wearing shoes that were so uncomfortable it cost them their battles, and ended with the development of the Munson Last, the foundation for "the best shoe ever furnished American trooops."

1) Mr. Freeman is a custom shoemaker. Like most Cordwainers, Dan loves to make shoes. In this roundtable discussion, he explores the various techniques for making a living while becoming successful enough to support yourself with your craft. The Cordwainers describe their individual efforts to resolve this ever present problem.

2)  Mr. Oakley works in the shoemaking shop at Old Sturbridge Village and regularly teaches a course on making historical shoes. In this presentation, he discusses his techniques for running successful workshops, including class sizes, course length, tools and materials.

1)  Using transparencies, the late Capt. Peterkin traces the evolution of the Army Bootee from the development of the Jefferson Boot through the Blucher shoes worn by soldiers and cavalry of the Civil War. He discusses manufacturers, inspection marks, and the actual construction of the Bootee.

2) With colored slides, Al shows shoemakers at their benches and discusses the clothing they wear, tools, postures, work locations, and how so little has changed over the Centuries. Many of the slides were taken by Al at the recent tour of England's Shoe Museums by the Cordwainers.

1)  Using transparencies, Al examines shoemaking manuals from Medieval times through the 18th century. A time when shoemakers made wonderful shoes without the help of sewing machines and modern adhesives. How did they do it? What kinds of tools and materials did they use? What were the names of their tools? Al answers these questions with pictures of actual pages from the books used by those shoemakers.

2) With beautiful color slides, June introduces us to this boot style. She shows us exactly what makes a boot a Hessian, who made them, who wrote about them, and who wore them (cavalry, Napoleon, and - would you believe - billy the Kid, among others).

3)  As a bonus, Rene enthusiastically shares with us his recent tour of obscure French Leather museums. All charming small town museums

1)Using her personal collection of beautiful slides, June discusses American shoes and shoemaking from Primitive Native American footwear through the latest styles.

2) Peter Oakley presents an intriguing insight into this era of flourishing American shoe production with the aid of factory production figures, numbers of employees, excerpts from account books, and the actual diary of a shoemaker.

3) While doing research for setting up a shoemaking shop for George Washington’s Mount Vernon Museum, Paul stumbled upon the actual shoemakers that made shoes for our first president. They made shoes for George Washington at Mount Vernon.

1) Working with his personal collection of slides and equipped with his background of years of work in a museum shoe shop, Al examines the philosophy of historical shoemaking in museum environment.

2)  The Cordwainers visit the studio exhibit in the Plimoth Crafts Center for a personal impromptu tour of Rusty’s work at setting up a shoe shop to replicate 17th Century shoes.

3) Using detailed slides and diagrams, Tim presents his research on the reproduction of the uniform and leather equipment of the Grenadiers in the French and Indian War.

1) Double Channel English-Style Top Boots (49 mins.), Kenneth Treese. The construction of a pair of reproduction top boots from patterning to polishing.

2) Al Saguto. Master Shoemaker, Colonial Williamsburg, presents a slide presentation highlighting and describing the various tools and devices gathered from Colonial Williamsburg, private and international collections. The slides will photo-illustrate his forthcoming book, The Art of the Cordwainer by M. DeGarsault.

3) Cordwainer's Shoe Collection (24 mins.), Al Saguto examines each pair of
historical shoes in the Cordwainers’ Shoe Collection in chronological order, from the late 1770s through to the early 20th century. He displays and describes the details and construction technique of each piece.

1) Gill,  Historian (ret.), Historic Trades Department, Colonial Williamsburg, 1961-1991, discusses his research on apprenticeship for 18th century trades. He covers apprenticeship indentures, education, and orphans, focusing on shoemakers and his book, Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800.

2)  Ross, Master Blacksmith, Colonial Williamsburg, shares his research on the background and detailed construction of reproduction 18th century pincers, nippers, and other related historic shoemaking tools as used in the Shoemaking shop at the museum.

3)  Graham, historian/Cordwainer, New Hampshire. Using an old diary (1882) of his wife’s grandparents, who were part time shoemakers and part time farmers, Bruce discusses the history of shoemaking in New Hampshire. They “made shoes on the kitchen table“ and forwarded them to large manufacturers in his state.

4)  Saguto, Master Shoemaker, Colonial Williamsburg. Al displays and discusses Shoe remnants taken from the lower Manhattan, East River landfill. And donated to Colonial Williamsburg.

1) Using an extensive collection of lasts, Al discusses the history of the last from Ancient times to the present. Dan discusses the utilitarian functions of the last.

2) Sharon discusses her craft of using a molded foil technique for creating a pattern for constructing custom simple stitch-down shoes.

1) Following a spirited how-to orientation, Donna, separates the cordwainers into work groups for a hands-on workshop. Using paper, pencils and white cotton gloves, they examine identify and draw various mid to late 18th c. Shoes and fragments.

2) A discussion of the technical research and development he's gone through to develop and market an affordable, hand made shoe.

3) A review and critique of a fascinating video of an Ecuadorian shoemaker who creates beautiful shoes with only a few simple (primitive) tools.

1)  A university paper delivered in the Czech Republic that examines children’s shoes from the Medieval period through the 20th century. Includes an interesting formula for calculating the height of the children that wore those shoes.

2) Using inexpensive nylon line for a bristle and dacron polyester thread, D. W. presents an amazing hands-on demonstration using these unusual items to perform the same functions as an expensive hog’s bristle and linen thread.

1) An enthusiastic complete tour of the factory where Larry manufactures replica historical shoes for museum personnel and re-enactors. He demonstrates his extensive collection of antique and modern shoe machines.

2) Peter spins riveting yarns from “Ol’ Blighty”, interesting and bizarre customers and the unusual requests he’s encountered in the many years of his London shop.

1)Using slides, Al examines the treasure trove of 18th century shoes as recovered from burial or under water, from sewers, wells or sunken ships.

2) A "Show & Tell" presentation of Bruce's latest interest, book binding. He shows off his beautiful leather bound books and fields how-to questions from the cordwainers.

1) Sharon has written a book and given a previous presentation to the Cordwainers about her technique of patterning and constructing outstitched shoes. She discusses how her career and techniques have evolved since the book and the presentation.

2) Ellen first learned the craft of simple shoemaking from Sharon. Her interest piqued, she determined to make shoes on a last. This led her to a shoemaking course at FIT where they featured the art of fashion shoemaking. Ellen discusses the techniques she has learned and displays her work.

1) Val presents the paper he is working on as his Journeyman project for Colonial Williamsburg. The detailed report includes the percentage of the shoes that were stitched, pegged, etc. down to counting the stitches per inch attained by those Colonial shoemakers.

2) Dan demonstrates the technique of lasting using the hoisting method by actually lasting a pump and a boot

1) Paul reproduced  a mid-19th Century Slave’s Shoes  Big Ben, a slave, was a huge man with extremely large feet. Paul tells Ben's story and examines one of Ben’s large shoes from a museum, then sets about creating a last for the shoe.

2) The STS Sock Method for making lasts. Using a fellow Cordwainer’s foot as a model, Glen demonstrates his techniques for creating a custom plaster last by taking a mold of the foot.

1) Dick demonstrates his techniques for sharpening his tools.

2) Lisa is a custom bootmaker from Guthrie, Oklahoma. She opened her successful boot shop in 1966. She recently won the Master Bootmaker Division at the Boot and Saddlemakers roundup in Wichita Falls. In this video, she discusses the challenges of developing a successful business building boots

1) Dan discusses his technique for lasting a shoe with a one-piece upper.

2) Sharlot is a theatrical footwear shoemaker and teacher. Professor Battin has been teaching classes at F.I.T. for over twenty years and has developed most of the footwear courses for the Accessories Design Department. In this video She demonstrates her unique method for creating a meanform with rubber cement and canvas.

1) Rick demonstrates a program that he developed and shares for making computer assisted shoe patterns.

2. Frank Jones dicusses his evolution from working in shoe factories to teaching the shoemaking trade.

1) Bruce discusses shoes and other artifacts concealed in the walls of New England homes. He shows many of the old shoes using a power point slide show produced by Bruce and his wife, Penny.

2) Marc, the HCC Librarian, discusses the library collection and questions how to proceed with growing number of volumes.

1) Georgene, a  shoemaker specializing in women's shoes and boots, discusses tricks she has learned for creating her popular products.

1)  Nasser demonstrates his techniques for waxing and twisting strands of thread to make various weights of thread for stitching shoes and boots.

2) Lisa, a custom  bootmaker from Guthrie, Oklahoma, demonstrates her boot inlaying methods by creating an inlaid bookmark.

3) D. W. displays and discusses the tool he uses and shows us how he builds pull-up holes for his boots.

1) Duplicating her presentation in Vol XXXI, Sharlot goes into even more detail regarding this techniqe and presents new ideas she has learned since then. She also discusses last nomenclature

2)  Using a power point presentation of slides, Sharlot shows us the shoes she has created for the casts of Broadway shows.

1) Marc discovered, while digging through old manuscripts and illustrations of shoemakers at work, that there were no hammers mentioned or shown. In this presentation, he probes the reasons for this oddity with the use of power point slides.

2) Nasser  demonstrates how he tapes a last to extract its form. He also shows us how he makes hand sewing wax using pine pitch and cooking oil.

3) Dan digs into his trick bag and gives us some new ideas for patternmaking.

2) Dan discusses a trick that he learned from June Swann to improve his custom footwear.

 1) Lisa, a custom bootmaker from Guthrie, Oklahoma, set up a course teaching leather art at Penland and, along with power point slides, discusses steps she took to create the course and problems she encountered and solved.

2)  Brett, a journeyman shoemaker at Colonial Williamsburgh, discusses  Samuel Lane who  kept a detailed journal of his day-to-day life as a New Hampshire shoemaker in the 18th Century. The New Hampshire Historical Society published a book of his writings. Brett discusses Samuel’s life with power point slides, as detailed in this book.

1) Dick is the owner/bootmaker of Thornapple River Boots, Ladysmith, Wis. In this demonstration he builds a last by casting the foot of one of the cordwainers.

2) Lisa is the owner/bootmaker of Sorrell Custom Boots, Guthrie, OK. In this demonstration, she details techniques for selecting and fitting custom lasts for her customers.

3)  Marcell is a master shoemaker in Hungary. In this PPT presentation, he discusses his techniques for shaping and finishing heels, soles, and the complete shoe.

4) Lynn is a custom bootmaker in Ontario and has been having difficulty finding satisfactory leather for her trade so she began tanning her own hides. In this practical demonstration, she actually tans the hide of a raccoon that she found as road kill near the sight of the hcc's annual meeting, using the animal's brains as the tanning material.

1) Edward, is a former Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and founding director of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. In this presentation he analyzes the footwear worn by the subjects in the 17th century paintings in the Rijksmuseum's collection in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2) Michael, a bootmaker in Sebastopol, California, received a commission from the Ford Theater and the National Park Service to recreate the boots that Lincoln was wearing when he was assasinated. In this presentation, he details the commission, from actually handling Lincoln's boots through his completion of the recreation.

3) Kathleen, Senior Critic, Apparel Design, RISD, has a  colleague who attended the preceding year's AGM and brought ideas that she had learned back to the school. Kathleen discusses the impact that has had on the school's curriculum and especially to Italian shoe design.

4)  Carina, master shoemaker in Sweden and Official Shoemaker to the Swedish Royal Family, discusses techniques that she uses to create orthotic shoes that are both attractive and orthotically correct.