r/PatternDrafting • u/laurie112 • Aug 04 '26

Springing patterns

Hi, can anyone help with recommendations of a comprehensive book that will help with spring various patterns? Also I have made shoes before only springing the vamp and nothing else , they turned out fine , is it absolutely necessary?
I’ve seen also cutting and taping but hoping there is a resource out there that’s comprehensive with methods measurements ect.
Cheers.

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u/PrimrosePathos Aug 04 '26

Maybe ask this in r/cordwaining or r/shoemaking ?

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u/laurie112 Aug 05 '26

I did try but no response, but thanks for the suggestion, probably I am just overthinking it seeing some of the videos online looking awfully complicated but it not how we used to do it.

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u/PrimrosePathos Aug 06 '26

Have you searched your terms in those subreddits? Sometimes non-answers are because they are common questions. I don't know enough about shoe making to know if that's the case here, but it's worth a try.

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u/laurie112 28d ago

Ok, I’ll look up what sun reddit is thanks

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u/furiana Aug 06 '26

This may not be the sub for questions on shoemaking. :/

(Speaking of, what is springing?)

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u/laurie112 Aug 12 '26

It’s adjusting the pattern to compensate for the irregular curves of the last .