Crossword clues for shoemaking
shoemaking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoemaking \Shoe"mak`ing\, n. The business of a shoemaker.
Wiktionary
n. The making of shoes.
WordNet
n. the shoemaker's trade [syn: shoe repairing, cobbling]
Wikipedia
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship.
Shoemakers, also known as cobblers, may produce a range of footwear items, including shoes, boots, sandals, clogs and moccasins. Such items are generally made of leather, wood, rubber, plastic, jute or other plant material, and often consist of multiple parts for better durability of the sole, stitched to a leather upper.
Trades that engage in shoemaking have included the cordwainer's and cobbler's trades. Today shoes are often made on a factory basis rather than a craft basis.
Usage examples of "shoemaking".
Keep all the books for the tannery and wagonwright and shoemaking shop, the smithy and all the stores scattered across four counties.
Those include the beermaking Weiders, the shoemaking Tales, and the we-don’t-talk-about-what-we-do Contagues.
The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grind ing, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.
They proved to be skillful farmers and artisans and thrived at a host of cottage industries: weaving, shoemaking, wood carving, cabinet-making, leather-craft work, pottery, and so on.