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Looking for a good durable ancient shoe design that would be good for Allies and Enemies
Celts Germans Dacians. Mostly interested in something so the Iceni could be well shod for the Clash of Iron event next March.
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Your standard "bog" shoe works. Any number of patterns available through a casual google search
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Saepe veritas est dura.
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Carbatina are very easy to make. Took me a few hours start to finish. Only problem is it is a single piece of leather for the upper and sole so not sure how "durable" it will be over the long term.
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones"
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Sometimes, we have taken a leather sole and grooved and stitched it on the bottom side, to help keep the rocks, stickers, and thorns from getting to the feet. That is probably not authentic, but in Texas, it matters a lot. Heck, some of the grass down here has sharp edges, and we don't need to talk about the cacti.... :mad: :roll:
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Celtic, gallic shoes or germanic shoes? Dacian's shoes i don't know how they were look like. Warrior's shoes or civilian's shoes?
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A primary source book out of print and hard to find "Primitve Shoes" by M.Hald can be found here online..
http://vitezek.io.ua/album213075
anyone whos interested in footwear should have this one, get it while you can....
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
