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  2. International Wooden Shoe Museum Eelde - Wikipedia

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    Over 2,200 different pairs of wooden shoes and footwear with wooden soles from 43 countries. [4] Hundreds of pieces of clog-making equipment from seven European countries. Simple machinery dating from the 1920s, from the Netherlands, Germany and France. An extensive collection of international literature, including photographs.

  3. Clog - Wikipedia

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    Wooden upper clogs; are made by hollowing out a lump of solid wood to make a combined upper and lower. Two main variants can be seen: whole foot clogs; where the wooden upper covers the whole of the foot to near the ankle, such as the Dutch klomp. They are also known as "wooden shoes".

  4. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Sample – Western New York based retailer founded in Buffalo in 1928 when its founder brought a sample set of 48 dresses back from New York City. At its peak, the retailer was noted for its semi-annual clearance known as the Pup Sale. The demise of The Sample was in 1991 following the death of the chain's chairman a year earlier.

  5. Klomp - Wikipedia

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    Dutch clogs, for everyday use. The red painting on top makes the clogs look like leather shoes. It is a traditional motif on painted clogs. A klomp (Dutch: ⓘ, plural klompen [ˈklɔmpə(n)] ⓘ) is a whole-foot clog from the Netherlands. Along with cheese, tulips, and windmills, they are strongly associated with the country and are considered ...

  6. Sabot (shoe) - Wikipedia

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    In truth, sabotage is derived from the noise and clumsiness associated with the wooden sabot shoe. [2] The American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner settled in France and one of his paintings depicts sabot manufacture. The picture, The Young Sabot Maker, is now on display in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

  7. Clog (British) - Wikipedia

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    Another disadvantage is that the wood has a tendency to split if taken from the centre of the tree. [3] So much alder was used for clogs that in parts of Wales it was called Pren Clocsia (Clog Wood) rather than Gwern. [13] Beech is a good wood for machining, but suffers from being heavy and having a short grain. Modern machined-beech soles tend ...

  8. Patten (shoe) - Wikipedia

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    Pattens were worn outdoors over a normal shoe, had a wooden or later wood and metal sole, and were held in place by leather or cloth bands. Pattens functioned to elevate the foot above the mud and dirt (including human effluent and animal dung) of the street, in a period when road and urban paving was minimal. Women continued to wear pattens in ...

  9. Bast shoe - Wikipedia

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    Wooden foot-shaped blocks (lasts) for shaping them have been found in neolithic excavations, e.g. 4900 years old. [1] Bast shoes were still worn in the Russian countryside at the beginning of the twentieth century. Today bast shoes are sold as souvenirs and sometimes worn by ethnographic music or dance troupes as part of their costume.

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