M. de Garsault's 1767 Art of the Shoemaker

Download or read book M. de Garsault's 1767 Art of the Shoemaker written by François Alexandre Garsault and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoemaker returns us to a world where most goods were made by hand with time-honored traditional techniques. The text covers everything from preparing threads and making and using shoemakers' wax to the stitch-by-stitch use of the awl and the proper making of the inseam. Garsault's 1767 copperplate images, pictures from contemporaneous sources, and modern photographs of hitherto unpublished eighteenth-century tools and artifacts illustrate this edition." "Also in this book are a facsimile of the 1767 French text, translations of other eighteenth-century writings about shoemaking, a glossary of eighteenth-century shoemaking terms, and suggestions for further reading." --Book Jacket.