Shoemaking with Meg Spitzer | Shoemaking Tutorial

It’s always such a treat when we get to share our latest ‘Get Inspired’ collaborations, and this one is no exception! I mean honestly, check out these boots we did with Fibre Artist, @meg.spitzer! 'Get Inspired' is a series of shoe design collaborations with the intention to inspire our community to unlock different creative practices and apply them to shoes. All the shoes made in this series and variations of them can be made from home following the instructions in our Online Footwear Masterclass. So let’s start with a bit about Meg.. Meg is a Los Angeles based fiber artist known for her vivid and playful art deco inspired tapestries. Her pieces exist where macrame, weaving and fiber sculpture collide. Each piece of Meg’s work is designed and created in her studio at home, including these amazing boot pieces she created for this collaboration. I LOOOOOVE the colour of these boots, but honestly I think they’d look awesome in any colour. Meg was at one point going to add a macrame detail to the back of the heel also but she decided to limit the weaving to the top of the boot and I think this was totally the right call, it really allows her pieces to stand out and keeps the silhouette of the boot nice and clean too. The leather is a mauve textured cowhide from @ghleathers which held its shape beautifully. We were a bit worried that if we used too soft leather it wouldn’t hold its shape once we stitched megs pieces around the top but we didn’t have that problem at all. H