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Shoemaker/Repairers construct, decorate or repair leather and leather-like products, including shoes, belts and bags.
Shoemaker/Repairer jobs involve the following:
- liaising with customers to obtain relevant information, e.g. their requirements, and to give them advice
- estimating the costs of requested products or work such as custom footwear or footwear repair
- receive payment from customers
- selecting materials (e.g. leather or fabric), and choose or fabricate patterns
- laying out patterns onto materials, and cut out parts, e.g. using knives, shears, and industry specific machine presses
- treating leather or other materials to produce desired effects, decorations or shapes
- using a variety of techniques such as dyeing, painting, stamping, stitching, staining or punching holes to produce products to specifications
- joining, aligning and stitching or gluing materials together
- attaching insoles, shoe uppers, and apply heels and outsoles
- positioning and securing linings, and attach accessories, e.g. buckles and eyelets
- cleaning and polishing the finished product, e.g. trim soles and heels to shape, check the product quality
- repairing footwear and other leather products, e.g. replace worn soles and heels, insoles or accessories (buckles, zips, straps, etc.) and re-stitching
- cleaning and maintaining tools and machinery
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