The Tudor Revolution

  Good Morning Beautiful Humans! Today I am keeping up with the request you gave me to give you a tutorial on making renaissance turn shoes. At the time of upload, this was the most requested video in my recent community poll. I purchased this kit after my friend Amber  @DSA Threads Costuming  make a pair for IRCC a few years ago. We chatted a bit while making them and she gave me some tips on how she decorated and sewed her shoes together. Check out the links below for her video on the shoes. I originally was planning to make and wear these as a back up plan for my elevation to the order of the laurel in January, but it was a bit too wet and cold for me to really want to wear them outside. Instead I will have them for some of our warmer weather coming up this spring. To make these shoes I used several of these items or similar tools. List does include Amazon affiliate links if you wish to purchase through them and continue to support this channel in a monetary way....

Shoes from the Museum of London's collection. Materials: Paper and pencil for patterning fabric pencil 1 foot square of thick veggie tan leather for sole- Mine are made of buffalo since I found a scrap to experiment with 1 foot square of thinner leather for shoe upper- I used goat skin hole punch mallet exacto knife and cutting mat leather needles waxed thread pliers Step 1 First step to any of  project is having your plan, and in the case of  these shoes that is a pattern. My first step was tracing my foot onto a piece of paper and then drawing the shape of my shoe around it. Many of my friends who have tried to make their own shoes had toes that pinched, so my first pair are meant to have a wide toe as is seen on the examples from the Mary Rose. For the vamp and heel pieces I mocked them up with craft felt and paper to ensure I had the right shape. Step 2 Cut out pieces of shoes. Remember to make mirror of the shoe. Now is a great time to use punches...

A dear friend of mine recently had another baby boy and loves to dress him in period clothing. I unfortunately missed her baby shower, but finished up these darling little shoes made of cotton for easy care and mailed them to her. When worn there is a ribbon that laces through the eyelets to help them stay on her son's feet, but if he is getting active I could see those being ignored completely. These were inspired by several adult pairs of shoes and to give me some small scale practice before trying to make my own shoes later this year. Children were dressed as small adults during the 16th century, so it made perfect sense to me to use their shoes (and modern booties to some extent) when choosing styles and constructing this pair. I Keep your eyes open for test pieces on shoes in the coming months. Extent Pieces: Unfinished Women's shoes in Boston Italian Slipper in the Met