Official Colonial Shoe Models!

We're learning about shoemakers and blacksmiths in our Social Studies time. Now, a real colonist would use wood instead of cardboard, and leather instead of fleece, and nails instead of glue. Other than that, these are really AUTHENTIC colonial shoes made on the templates in our Bob Jones studies. They don't have any do-it-yourself blacksmithing stuff but they did have printing before if you have been reading long enough. We also got to tie in a bit of math and talk about why "measuring" would be important for a shoemaker. Elf and Emperor wondered... WHY would "measuring" be important? LOL they would have had some verrry unhappy customers if they mismeasured, I'm sure... Just as an aside, did you ever wonder what a "latchet" is? John the Baptist talks about not being worthy to undo the "latchet" on the shoes of Jesus. A latchet is the buckle area in the front there. We used a tie instead of a buckle with holes, but either could have been used in colonial times. Of course, in Bible study we have learned that two mites equal a farthing and I need to go figure out what a "farthing" is.