Moccasin pattern
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If you go to google and type in pucker toe moccasin you will find some free patterns ! But other wise you can buy some from crazy crow or dixie gun works. :v
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tRYEN, THERE ARE SEVERAL STYLES OF PUCKER TOE DEPENDING ON THE AREA OF THE COUNTRY, oops sorry for the caps--anyway make sure ya get one good for the area yer portraying. Ya may look a bit odd wear Apache style mocs in Cree or Blackfoot territories LOL. The devil is in the details my friend :stir: :thumbsup:
Birdman said:
I understand where you are coming from with that comment. But, fact is, folks travel these days. If you end up at an event where someone critizes you for not having something that is 'authentic' for that area, you are hanging with the wrong kind of people.
I recall visiting an Illinois museum and taking a series of photographs of an original squaw dress, including close-up details. My wife made herself a beautiful buckskin dress, except for age, perzactly like the one at the museum. At the first ronny we attended a woman approached my wife and said, "They didn't make them like that." Broke my wife's heart. But we knew to avoid that woman and her ignoramus camp after that.
In other words, do what you like. If you can fit your persona and area with something you like, just fine. Wrong style moccasins won't exile you from my camp.
Chef said:
That is not cheating. That is ingenuity.
An awful lot of britches, skin and cloth, are patterned after old Levis.
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"do what you like".
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The native Indian women ripped apart pants during the early mountain man days to learn how to make them and sell buckskin pants to the trappers of European ancestry.
On the pucker toe- if you want a big toe/vamp- that is a pretty easy thing to make and there is a 1820 Cree moccasin (BATA SHOE MUSEUM- http://www.allaboutshoes.ca/en/paths_across/) of that style. If you like the smaller vamp on a puckered toe then you'll have to have a short center seam from the vamp to the toe. There are quite a few styles on how to make such a thing. Actually a rectagular piece of leather with the top folded over and sewn together to form a center seam works pretty good.
BTW- you could call such things a puckered/center seam. They were common- from the Great Lakes to the Shoshone. The very early French Voyageurs often married into the Great Lake tribes and they may have introduced the style farther west.
On the pucker toe- if you want a big toe/vamp- that is a pretty easy thing to make and there is a 1820 Cree moccasin (BATA SHOE MUSEUM- http://www.allaboutshoes.ca/en/paths_across/) of that style. If you like the smaller vamp on a puckered toe then you'll have to have a short center seam from the vamp to the toe. There are quite a few styles on how to make such a thing. Actually a rectagular piece of leather with the top folded over and sewn together to form a center seam works pretty good.
BTW- you could call such things a puckered/center seam. They were common- from the Great Lakes to the Shoshone. The very early French Voyageurs often married into the Great Lake tribes and they may have introduced the style farther west.
tryinhard said:
Depends on how historically accurate you want to be. The pattern on the Wisconsin web site is as accurate as they come, with the Southern Indian page being a real close second.
IMHO, accurate mocs are as easy to make as inaccurate ones; sometimes easier, and they look better and are more comfortable to wear.
The ABSOLUTE BEST video on making center seam mocs is "Constructing Woodland Moccasins with Michael Galban" Michael covers virtually every aspect of making your own high quality mocs.
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"IMHO, accurate mocs are as easy to make as inaccurate ones; sometimes easier, and they look better and are more comfortable to wear."
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I've always figured that if you are going to do something, might as well do it right as do it wrong. So yes---research what is correct for your area or your area of interest. And look into what correct for the time period you are aiming for. Styles changed, often radically, over time. Many museum examples can have rather late dates--often from the 1880-1920 range, especially for clothing. Resist the urge to tear modern clothing apart--all you'll end up with is modern clothing done in leather. By the way, if you can swing it, try using braintan---not only is it correct, but it's nowhere near as slick as chrometan to walk in.
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I've always figured that if you are going to do something, might as well do it right as do it wrong. So yes---research what is correct for your area or your area of interest. And look into what correct for the time period you are aiming for. Styles changed, often radically, over time. Many museum examples can have rather late dates--often from the 1880-1920 range, especially for clothing. Resist the urge to tear modern clothing apart--all you'll end up with is modern clothing done in leather. By the way, if you can swing it, try using braintan---not only is it correct, but it's nowhere near as slick as chrometan to walk in.
Rod
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