Equipment and training to make athletic shoes?
November 16th, 2009 | by admin |How are athletic shoes made, what kind of equipment is needed, and where can you learn to make shoes?
I was a shoe designer and the ability to make shoes is a combination of craft and science
You need some very sophisticated equipment special sewing machines and the shoe made in leather or synthetics will each be different again
I learnt through a factory and had to learn every step which took over a year to do each step
There is the technology in the materials that make up the shoes
modern shoes have special molds for making the out soles, then you need eye let machines and a host of processes from cleaning to finishing
there are companies in China that will make a shoe for you if you design it
However you Can’t walk into most companies and buy 1 metre of cloth sometimes you can only but rolls of 300metres at a time
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I was a shoe designer and the ability to make shoes is a combination of craft and science
You need some very sophisticated equipment special sewing machines and the shoe made in leather or synthetics will each be different again
I learnt through a factory and had to learn every step which took over a year to do each step
There is the technology in the materials that make up the shoes
modern shoes have special molds for making the out soles, then you need eye let machines and a host of processes from cleaning to finishing
there are companies in China that will make a shoe for you if you design it
However you Can’t walk into most companies and buy 1 metre of cloth sometimes you can only but rolls of 300metres at a time
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