Who wants to be a shoe designer: lace up shoe

Bespoke shoe making consists of two types of construction. Standard cemented construction or for the ultimate in tradition....hand sewn uppers to an insole using a hand feathered method on a welt. Some suppliers approaches but recommend hand welting as it guarantees a longer lasting life to your shoes.

Some shoemakers produces their own threads using a material called hemp. Hemp is fine cotton and the strength of the thread is determined by the shoemaker by adding more hemp which is hand rolled and waxed. This is painstakingly important to the finished product and is not a process commonly used by other craftsman.English oak bark or High quality sole leather from French hides for Men’s and for Women’s. All our welted work has hand stitched soles through an open channel.

Hand brushed lace up style