A hands on, how to, workshop (practically a seminar) on making this style of shoe so popular in the 1800s. Using shoes in various stages of completion, Peter shows the way, from attaching the insole to the last through burnishing and finishing the bottom. He uses and discusses the tools, the thread, the materials and, of course, the pegs. Depending on how much knowledge you bring to this video, you could conceivabley make you own peg shoes after watching it. A must have for the craftsman’s video library.

1) Ken discusses the construction of a pair of reproduction top boots that he's made, from patterning to polishing.

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

3) Al  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.

In this amazing presentation, D. W. performs a step-by-step demonstration of how he crimps a full (one piece front) Wellington boot by hand, doing the seemingly impossible with just wet leather, crimping boards, clamps, a hammer, tacks, and a few hand tools.

1) Alzbeta presents a university paper delivered in the Czech Republic that examines children’s shoes from the Medieval period through the 20th century. She 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.

 John learned the trade in 1970s Boston, when there was literally a sandal maker on every street corner of all the major cities. In this presentation he designs and completes, step by step, a molded sole, Rilleau sling sandal, one of the most popular styles of the era. He includes a generous sprinkling of anecdotes from those glorious days of the beatnik/hippie sandal makers.

Arkansas Boot Maker, Jake, learned the trade from D. W. Frommer. In this presentation he demonstrates the art of inseaming the welt of a western boot as taught by D. W.

Jake demonstrates the art of hand sewing an outsole, virtually duplicating the work of a curved needle stitcher. He discusses cutting the groove in the sole, punching the holes through the welt and sole, and finally, attaching the bristle to the thread and sewing with it.

Dick demonstrates the art of creating a curved awl blade from cutting a length of raw steel through the finishing, polishing and attachment of the handle. All of Dicks tools, works of art, are coveted by working cordwainers.

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 his  technique of lasting using the hoisting method by actually lasting a pump and a boot

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

David is a certified pedorthist and a footwear instructor at Fashion Institute of Technology. He owns and operates The Cobbler & Cordwainer, LTD, established in 1977. His extensive resoling experience has caused David to work with and understand varied cement processes. In this presentation, he shares his knowledge of these techniques.

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

2) Sharlot is a theatrical footwear shoemaker and teacher. She 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) 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.

 Peter demonstrates his techniques and tricks for making a pegged shoe. Similar to his demonstration in Vol VII, Peter includes some new methods for this 19th century technique of shoemaking.

1)  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.

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

3) 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

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.