
Shoemaking
June Swann(Author)
Shire Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-0-85263-778-4 (ISBN)
Description
Before the 1920s everyone knew the local cobbler, a worthy representative of the 'gentle craft', who repaired shoes and made them look like new for a few pence. This book tells the story of shoemaking from the days of the isolated shoemaker, who made a shoe right through, to the groups of men who worked with apprentices in larger towns and served the customer direct. It shows the growth of mass production in the seventeenth century. Finally the book shows the late development of mechanisation in the 1850s and the rigidity it imposed.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
82 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85263-778-4 (9780852637784)
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