Author : François Alexandre Garsault
Release : 2009
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis M. de Garsault's 1767 Art of the Shoemaker by : François Alexandre Garsault
Download or read book M. de Garsault's 1767 Art of the Shoemaker written by François Alexandre Garsault. This book was released on 2009. 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 Garsault's 1767 copperplate images, pictures from contemporaneous sources, and modern photographs of hitherto unpublished eighteenth-century tools and artifacts illustrate this edition."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.