[Regia-NA] Jorvik shoes

[NickBibby at aol.com]

I made a different, slightly earlier style of Jorvik shoe [the  one with 
slits running round the top threaded with a flat thong] which also has  it's seam 
on the inside. I haven't checked my 17/16, but I seem to remember that  the 
earliest, one piece style, also has it's seam on the inside of the foot.  
Presumably since "shoe fashion" in early medieval times was so conservative.  Seams 
went on the inside, as far as cobblers were concerned. So naturally  any 
closure relating to that seam would go there to, regardless of  practicality?
Just a theory. This is not discussed in the book.
Cheers,
Nick.
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In a message dated 6/18/2005 5:54:27 PM GMT Daylight Time,  
robertpkenyon at adelphia.net writes:

Hi  all,
Just thought I'd share this annoying little epiphany.  After  recently
completing a pair of Jorvik style turnshoes with the flap and  toggle going
over the instep and fastening at the outside of the foot, I  re-read the
relevant section of "Leather and Leatherworking in  Anglo-Scandinavian and
Medieval York" by Quita Mould, Ian Carlisle, and  Esther Cameron (from The
Archaeology of York series, The Small Finds 17/16  Craft, Industry and
Everyday Life).  Much to my chagrin I discovered a  passage that I had
previously overlooked.  I had always assumed that  the flaps fastened on the
outside of the foot and others have too, judging  by the reproductions
offered by many of the suppliers out there, and the  photos on the
leatherwork page of Regia's website.  However, according  to Page 3302:

"A large group of distinctive ankle-shoes fastened with  flaps and toggles
over the instep were found at the sites under  consideration here, and
elsewhere in York.  Though varying slightly in  aspects of construction, they
all comprised an upper of fundamentally  one-piece construction closed with a
single side seam at the vamp wing on  the inside of the foot.


 
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