Your hike in the footsteps of the Roman road Via Claudia Augusta across the Alps will be a special experience, if you make your own Roman sandals, as the Romans wore them 2000 years ago and walk parts of the hike with these sandals.
Maling Roman sandals
Handicraft instructions
- download pdf
- print on A3 sheet (size 40 - 42; for smaller or larger feet print larger or smaller)
- Total cut transferred to leather for shoe uppers
- transfer sole cut to thicker firm leather for sole (1x for unnailed sandals, 2x for nailed sandals)
- eliminate all
- Pierce holes in the upper part of the shoe
- Sewing the upper part of the shoe at the back
- for nailed sandals nails into one of the sole leathers
- Sewing together shoe uppers with soles
- Sandal top with leather strap
- ready are the sandals
