The Manufacture of Footwear and Technology of shoemaking

The manufacture of boots and shoes has tremendously changed since man began producing then. At present the manufacture of foot wear is very complicated process involving thousands of people working not only in shoemaking industry but in other branches. The shoemaking process itself comprises about combined into main several section designing, cutting, clicking, closing, bottom stocking, making, and finishing.Designing. Every large shoe factory has an experimental laboratory where new models of shoes and boots are developed by designers and shoe stylists. To create new models characteristics of materials and methods of upon sound principles, he should also possess more difficult process than cuffing bottom parts because upper details are of more complicated shape. You already know that a shoe is a complicated construction consisting of many functional details. These details are united in two main groups the upper and thick soles. The wonder pegs users in attaching the bottom were hammered into the holes preliminary made with an awl in the sole. Screwed method. The screw was absolutely irreplaceable for making heavy footwear, especially high boots because in the period of screw method spreading the high boots were an integral part of not only countrymen’s but also of town dwellers’ clothing. The screw was made of high-guilty a time that’s why it was too expensive. Besides, this method required thick insoles and very thick rubber soles cemented with better midsole. The next method, the sewed one, deals with the use of a thread as an attaching medium. This method has a number of advantages: the seam attaching the welt to the insole destructs very seldom; wear-resistance of welted shoes is very high; the shoes are everlasting, elastic and have high hygienic properties.