Sunday, April 6, 2008

Aubercy Bootmakers - tradition of shoemaking


Created in 1935 by Reneé and André Aubercy, Aubercy Bootmakers was at first a shop for men's shoes. For Aubercy, the numerous gestures that shoe artisans had executed never changed. After selecting the nicest calf skins, the leather goes into the tanning process held in the French tanneries. Hand-made assembly is the key component of Aubercy, where the uppers of the shoe, the plate, the pinholes, hard ends and the stiffenings are all constructed by hand, not machine punched, in order to give the absolute guaranty of strength and to keep he aesthetic quality. More than 390 processes are spread over at least one month of work which is necessary to realize a pair of shoe as Aubercy Bootmakers think it must be done.

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