A Documentary About How Ballet Shoes Are Made

Lookin Video has created a fascinating short documentary that reveals the remarkably labor intensive and low tech manufacturing process for ballet pointe shoes. The documentary focuses on Freed of London, a manufacturer of custom ballet shoes. Freed cobblers handcraft each shoe to the specifications of a particular dancer. Typically a dancer will have their shoes made by the same cobbler year after year.

E.D.W. Lynch
E.D.W. Lynch

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