One shoe, builton your own last.
Last is a shoemaker. Three styles, sewn by hand, from your foot's own form.
Five layers, one shoe.
Keep going. It comes apart along one line.
Closed again, exactly.
Everything that could be glued is sewn. So all of it can be replaced.
Upper
Full-grain calf, one hide.
Lining
Kid, soft against the sock.
Insole
Takes your print in a month.
Welt
The seam that allows resoling.
Outsole
Oak-bark, tanned for a year.
Three styles. One last.
Thirty-eight hours, one pair of hands.
Carve
Beech, cut from your tracing. Yours stays on our shelf.
Insole
Soaked, tacked to the last, left to dry overnight.
Lining
Kid leather, pulled over first and pinned flat.
Upper
Calf, drawn tight by hand. Then three days to set.
Welt
Sewn through upper and insole. 180 stitches, by awl.
Sole
Oak-bark, stitched in a channel. Heel stacked in five lifts.
Seven stitches to the inch. Count them.
A last is the wooden form a shoe is built on. It is also our name.
We carve yours once and keep it. Every later pair and every resole goes back on it.
Bring them back in ten years.
We resole on your last for $95, for as long as the upper holds. Ten working days, post included.
"Third pair on the same last. The first still goes to work." Tomasz R., Gdynia
