Nor really a shoe.. but

a mule. I bought many cheap Asian home footwear, but no one of them can be used more than a few months (sometimes even weeks), and all of them are made from full synthetic materials, causing swetting feet.. So I asked myself: I am a shoemaker, why I don’t make these things for myself? I [...]

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Déjà vu

déjà vu means the feeling that you were in that the situation previously. Here is the story:
when I finished the shoemaker school I wanted to practice sheomaking in real life, so I was searching a workplace as a shoemaker. Frankly: in that certain period shoemaking industry started to shrink in Hungary, and I could have [...]

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A new bespoke pair

Sometimes I just realise how much time I can spend to finish a pair of shoes – from the point the heels are bulided, “only” painting, waxing, sole painting, decoration etc. is left. One of my friend – makes only RTW dance shoes – can finish his products in minutes. I don’t mean it bad: [...]

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An unusual weekend in the workshop

I had to work in the weekend in the workshop. There are two reasons for that:
1. there was a short term student coming to learn the basics, so we needed every minute
2. I had to finish some orders until christmas (I can’t).
At the end of the day – when my student was kind of professional [...]

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