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I always thought genuine leather shoes like these are expensive because of the original expensive materials used, now I know it's the handmade thing that is worth every penny spent on these shoes. Might never be able to afford them, but I can truly appreciate the skill. Impressive 👏🏻

Фантастика.
Ещё больше поразил возраст мастеров.

In such a busy, angry, technologically overwhelmed globalized society we're in today, it is pleasing to see craftsman calmly, quietly creating such fantastic (functional) art such as this.  I respect the skill involved and that there are people still willing to take the time to do it properly.

I'm from Northamptonshire, England. This was the centre of the Boot and Shoe industry back in the day. Sadly only a handful of companies still exist making shoes to this sort of quality. Great to see young people in japan practising the art. Long may it continue.

I´m an orthopedic shoemaker from Germany crafting custom and handmade shoes for the disabled and seeing this just made me genuinely happy. My dream is to live in Japan one day and this gave me hope that there is really something I could do. But i must admit that our work is nowhere close to their art. Thank you Gentlemen 👏🏼

I was stationed in Japan in 1967. One day on leave I was walking though the city and stopped to watch a cobbler hand making shoes just like in this video. I was so impressed I decided to spend some of my drinking money and have a pair made even though I had trouble justifying the expense. Ashamed to admit it now because I paid less than $20 US for mine. The gentleman first made plaster casts of my feet and said they would keep my molds in the shop so I could order more pairs of shoes in the future and they would mail them to me in the states, although I never did order another pair.  The shoes I had made looked almost exactly like the ones in this video and they fit like a glove. After getting out of the military I wore them for many years as I climbed the corporate ladder. Sad to say, eventually the soles finally wore out and even though the tops still looked new and instead of getting them resoled... I threw them out. I seem to remember thinking "Heck' I only paid $20 for them, not worth getting them repaired".  A decision from my youth I've regretted several times since then... and especially now after watching this video [sigh].

Шикарная работа, а если быть точным, то - это произведение искусства!!!

My father was a shoemaker since he was about 15 years old, it was not a well paid profession in Mexico, but thanks to that I am what I am today thanks to shoemaking and to him, this video made me very nostalgic because although he made women's shoes the steps were identical and I always helped him from design to delivery, I would give anything to help him again at least once more to make a shoe with him, rest in peace dad Gilberto.

Очень полезное видео, чтоб люди понимали цену ручного труда и ценили!

Так обувь делали еще и после  ВО войны. Когда в 1950 году маму сократили на обувной ф-ке, ее дядя (он до революции занял 1 место по моделям и изготовлению   обуви в Париже) научил ее этому мастерству. Она работала дома, нелегально. И весь этот цикл, что здесь показан прохрдил перед моими глазами. Только делалось это на простой швейной машинке ZINGER (приспобленной для сшивания кожи) , мраморнрй доске , где брусовалась кожа, обязательно была подкладка из меткаля (название помню), на колодки набивались личинки (формировались колодки под конкретную стопу). Модель по иностранным фотожурналам выкраивалась. Все ьылр наиуральным. И то, что делают эти мастера всплыло в моей памяти, хотя я была ребенком.

Одно удаволствие на это смотреть, низкий паклон молодой ремесленик!!!👍✊🍷

Создавать обувь вручную сравни искусству калиграфии, это шедеврально и потрясающе. Браво мастеру за его труд, время и душу что он вложил создавая пару.

О-х , сколько  ручной   работы  !   Японское  качество  , у меня вызывает восхищение  !!!  Спасибо  .

He isn't a shoe marker only, he is an amazing artist.

He is not a worker.He is an artist.

No wonder handmade shoes are so expensive. Well earned even.

I was a shoe/boot repairman for close to 20 years and took great pride in my work. I was never trained to make shoes, just repair them, but I did work at a shop where the owner made shoes, so I have a high appreciation for the craft. Watching this just about brought me to tears, the level of craftsmanship and design. Bravo Gentlemen!

некоторые операции по изготовлению туфель--просто ювелирная работа.  молодец   МАСТЕР.

Amazing, so the old way of shoe making is still alive.  I am from the Netherlands and the way of shoemaking runs in the blood of the Netherlands as in my family as well. My father was a shoemaker old scool in the past about 70 years ago and he made shoes almost similar than you for me. One of the differences is that he used wooden pins in building up the heal of a shoe . Thanks for sharing , it was a joy of seeing you making shoes with a surgical steady hand. Chapeau.