My Medieval Fish Shoes (an educational journey in history, weird leathers, and shoemaking)

I made pointy medieval(ish) turnshoes (a.k.a. crakows or poulaines) out of carp leather (yes, the fish). They're not the most beautiful or well-made, nor are they very historically accurate. Still, I hope you'll enjoy coming on a meandering journey where I make some shoes and try to figure out why medieval Europeans seem to have NOT been that excited about fish leather - because fish leather is actually pretty great! This video was made for the CosTube #aprilfoolsfabric Collaboration......I'm a bit late to the party..... 00:00 Intro 01:16 Background 03:19 Planning 05:07 Patterning and Mock up 06:56 Leather Chaos 09:05 Construction Part 1 11:42 Historical Tangent-a-palooza 18:16 Construction Part 2 19:20 Waxing Philosophical on the Beach - SOURCES and LINKS - Footnotes and image list https://docs.google.com/document/d/17bTSec0winpJ4uBRHPcrJoYAtCVPbP_vwKeRM15hUbk/edit?usp=sharing Other shout outs of note: My leather source https://www.sealeatherwear.com/ Surprised Eel Historian discussing the medieval eel economy https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-eels-john-wyatt-greenlee/ The York Small Leather Finds https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/yat_2011/downloads.cfm We're Not So Different Podcast (it's not relevant. It's just a great new medieval podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-not-so-different/id1551657923?uo=4 - Music Used - "Blow the Man Down" perf. by The Midshipmen Glee Club YT Audio Library "Semper Dowland Semper Dolens" by