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The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts Commonly Engaged in the Making & Using of It.

Ford, Thomas K.; Gill, Harold B. [Contributor]; Townsend, Raymond R. [Contributor]· 3 chapters· 8,034 words

Once upon a time there lived in France a poet-bureaucrat by the name of Charles Perrault, who wrote fairy tales. He called one of them _Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre_, and ever since 1697, for that was the date of Cinderella’s appearance in modern literature, her...

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Prominent in the list of known Williamsburg leatherworkers are the names of William Pearson, tanner and currier, Alexander Craig, saddler and harnessmaker, and George Wilson, bo...

1. Part 1

Once upon a time there lived in France a poet-bureaucrat by the name of Charles Perrault, who wrote fairy tales. He called one of them _Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verr...

3. Part 3

Both men’s and women’s shoes, as well as children’s and slaves’ shoes—, were made on straight lasts. That is, shape and construction were the same for left and right shoe, and e...