Calcei boot pattern?

[tlclark]

Ah, I see my explanation was not clear or rather incomplete - when I said the upper of the Mainz calcei was made of one piece I meant excluding the tongue! The visible, outer, upper upper is one piece, the tongue itself is a seperate piece that is then sewn to that upper. Sorry to have caused some confusion here ... :-( (

Ok, I'll to decide if that's the way I want to go or if I decide to do two piece uppers. It's saves a lot of leather to do it in two pieces.

here's a pic.
This one has 3 pairs of ties!

Hm, are you sure? I can make out only 2 knots and no indication of a hidden 3rd one under the corrigae. It might just be that the upper corrigae are long enough to go all the way down.

Oh yes. You can count them. There is one at the top in front of the shin. Another a little further down in front, near the ankle. Now look to the side, you can see another end to a tie near the ankle on the side. There's another one on the other side. That's six ends. These are all tails because you can see the tassles on the ends.

Also if you look at the instep you can see four straps crossing, two from each side, instep of just one. The strap end on the side actually passes over one and under the other. two of the pairs of ties tie in the front, it's hard to see where the third ties. My guess is that we have two sets on the instep and one on the ankle.

If I have enough leather, I will probably make a lining.

Note that according to Goepfrich lining possibly was textile, so you could go for the cheaper version if you run out of leather

Looking forward to see the results!

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Thanks for the tip!

About linings. I could make the outers first, then make the linings to fit. But the linings have to be JUST smaller, otherwise they will wrinkle. How do I do this? Should I just double up the leather? Do I glue them in?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Travis