Silly shoes!

I decided I needed a seperate blog for doing A&S type stuff and it is way easier for me to post pics on blogger than to create my own website.

So here it is - a blog devoted to A&S projects, in particular silly shoes.

To get the ball rolling, here is a pic of my first silly shoes, the Calcei MkI

These are based on calcei from around 3rd century AD Roman Britain. A surviving shoe was found at Vindolanda (a source of many well preserved leather finds). Below is a picture of some of the finds from Vindolanda.


My calcei are starting to wear badly at the heal. The leather I used was a bit thin so it is tearing between the cut outs. I have recently bought some thicker leather to make another set using a square punch (like the top vindolanda example above).