Cow mouth shoes Renaissance shoes 16th Century corduan red
Cow-mouth shoe, welted with doubled outsole. Chronologically, this shoe can be classified from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 16th century.
This type of shoe is found in a time frame that translates as rebirth. A time of cultural revival. The plague was over and printing revolutionized the composition and distribution of writings. The fashion of the time was striking and characterized by the so-called Landsknechten. Slashed, colorful clothes and even cow-mouth shoes like these were in vogue.
The upper leather comes from cattle is very supple and extremely stable. Finds of these shoes are in many museums. Shoe finds of this type exist from about 1480.
Inside the shoe is lined with fine goatskin. In addition, the shoe has an inner sole also made of goatskin.
Details cow mouth shoes Renaissance shoes 16th century corduan red:
Upper leather: approx. 2 mm
Outsole thickness: min. 8mm
Upper: leather
Lining and / or cover sole: leather
Outsole: leather
Attention: The shoes run small. We advise street shoe size +1. For wide feet +2.
About the dyeing:
The offered shoe is dyed by hand with alcohol-based oil paint and then sealed.
Most often shoes in this price segment are made with leather treated with acrylic-based paint. Since acrylic paint is an opaque paint, the dyeing process virtually applies a paper-thin layer of plastic paint to the leather. This looks very even, but has very little to do with the dyeing methods used in the Middle Ages or natural, original leather grain of the upper leather.
In the Middle Ages, the leather was dyed red with madder or redwood dye.
The principle of this dyeing process, as with the oil paint we use, is that the color is absorbed and not applied opaquely as with acrylic. For this reason, our dyeing - although produced with color pigments of synthetic origin - is much more like a "medieval dyeing" than modern prepared leather from the tannery.
Our dyeing method gives the shoe a character in antique look, because the pores of the natural material leather are different and the color is absorbed accordingly also differently in some places. Thus, each shoe is unique.
By the way, the name Corduan red comes from the fact that an important place of production for red leather in the Middle Ages was Cordoba. Korduan leather or Korduan red thus originally referred to leather that came from Cordoba.
Scope of Supply: 1 Pair of Cow Mouth Shoes Renaissance Shoes 16th Century Corduan Red
