Shoemaking: (Shire Library)
By
June Swann (Author)
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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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- Contributor: June Swann
- Imprint: Shire Publications
- ISBN13: 9780852637784
- Number of Pages: 32
- Packaged Dimensions: 149x210mm
- Packaged Weight: 94
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Release Date: 1986-04-01
- Series: Shire Library
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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