Wild child
This design looks interesting from every angle, just saying.
There is a region in my mind called Idealand. That space is inhabited by a lovely creatures. Most of them are gentle and polite, but there’s also a room for nasty ones. It’s a place full of colors and action. I like to pay a visit to that land, from time to time. Sometimes, I take some stuff back with me on my way out. Those are the moments of joy and fun, for I can turn that dreamy visions into something concrete.
From that very region comes this sample shoe, which was quite popular amongst my fellow shoemakers.
This work was an improvised journey into my subconscious, crazy shoemaking, a free form, an exercise in the knife skills.
At the end of the day, this piece came as surprise to me, in more than one way.
The upper is mostly done spending hours over my good old Adler sewing machine. As you can see, not all the work could be finish like that. Some hand-stitching skills were necessary too.
This was my first adventure into balmoral pattern making. It’s rather tricky and to do it right takes a trial and error period. In combination with side-button fastening, this style is super sexy. Truly elegant look.
Not only leather-parts shapes are important here, but also my unique sewing technique I’ve developed, totally by chance. Literally, while I’ve been working on the sole, I’ve figured out this stitching method, taking advantage of a double sole construction type. For those of you, who does shoemaking work, I’m giving you an instruction of how I did that thing here:
Pretty cool, huh?
I’m wondering, how many of you gets that I was posting this one with The Doors song in my head? There’s a couple of hints in my writing style… That’s just a sidenote, though. I’m a storyteller and I do things on many levels in words and images. Welcome to my world.
As somewhat famous work, I did say enough about the way of thinking behind it. At least that’s how I feel. I definitely need to add that one for the purpose of giving you the full story, so that’s the reason for this blog entry here. It’s a documentation of the progress.
The originality of that piece makes it nothing more than just a one-off. An interesting journey, some piece etc. What I like the most is the daring vision that led me to this project.
Study picture, subject to change to a night mood. I like to go there more and more these days.
Personally, it’s a snapshot of a fantastic time in my early career, when I didn’t know what the workday will bring, soon after waking up. I try to live that kind of life to the fullest. This is one of the reasons why I get excited about things. It fuels my mind and body to action. I think that this approach toward existence is a beautiful thing.
Yep. Approaching with that candle to discover the bottom making wonders…