Make your own Medieval Clothing - Shoes of the High and Late Middle Ages is a practical guide for anyone good at crafts wishing to try their hand at shoemaking. Master shoemaker Stefan von der Heide provides information on materials and tools used in shoemaking in the Middle Ages in order to enable the reader to make different shoe and boot styles. Alongside different shoe types and various techniques, the author includes a list of recommended materials and useful sources.

The author Stefan von der Heide, born in 1959, acquired the necessary basics for his present work during his apprenticeship as an orthopaedic shoemaker. Shortly after receiving a master craftsman certifi cate for shoemakers in 1993, he began with the fi rst reconstructions of historica shoes. For some years now, his workspace has been in an artisan's workshop set in the picturesque courtyard of the "Altes Schloss" (Old Castle) in Neustadt an der Aisch (Bavaria).