Valkenburg/Castleford style caliga step by step

[Martin Moser]

Martin, you must of tilted the camera that would explain the difficulties that I'm having getting your pattern to fit my feet.

Yes, that might well be, sorry. But I think you do better to redevelop the pattern from your own foot, taking mine as a helper only. Feet can be different to an astonishing degree, I find.

On the back stretching issue I think that Martin has the answer. On my last pair I tryed something different and the result was too much material behind the heel. I've been carefully studying Martin's photos showing how he folded the leather over the heel and stitched it.

There certainly are other ways it was done, when you look at the drawings of the finds. The method I used here in my HowTo also is only deduced from the pattern from Stepping Through Time, I don't know how it was done originally. Unfortunately authors so far gave this aspect very little of their attention ...