1st century Calceus

[Martin Moser]

After having done a sort of prototype earlier this year, I got around to make a pair for myself that is following the originals more closely in constructional details as described by Goepfrich in Lederfunde athan the first pair did.

First I added an inner lining. The originals do not preserve the lining itself, only the stitching holes indicating there was one. Since the leather is pretty well preserved otherwise I chose linnen for this. The tying loops are reinforced on the inside. The edges are reinforced with stitching.





The thin upper leather (I used goat skin, ca. 0,7mm thick) is reinforced as with the original by a leather "frame", basically a long strip of leather, sewn to the inner sole and layed double.



Frame and upper are glued to each other and the inner sole. The outer sole is then sewn on through all those layers.