Sensing creativity: the role of materials in shoe design

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Notes

1. Clicking is the cutting of the design pattern out of leather or other material. The term clicking originated because of the sound the knife would make against the brass cutting board, which was used in traditional shoemaking factories. In modern factories machines or lasers do this cutting out or clicking. In the studios of the profiled designers they still used the traditional clicking method of a skiving knife and wooden or brass topped cutting board.

2. Closing is the stitching together of the cut out pattern pieces that will eventually make up the designed shoe.