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Make your own Roman Sandals All our sandal soles were made from 3mm. MDF (hardboard would do). We also used cork tiles and leather scraps. |
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1. Draw round your feet on the MDF. Leave about half a centimetre all round for fixing. 2. Cut the soles out with a jigsaw or fretsaw. Cut 2 matching shapes from cork tiles. 3. Cut 2 long thongs, about 3mm wide and 1 metre long, from the leather scraps. Cut round in a flat spiral from one edge. 4. Cut out 2 heel pieces and 4 side pieces as shown in the drawing. Cut the holes in them with a craft knife. 5. Put the sole piece right way up on a thick pad of cardboard. With a staple gun, fix the leather to the MDF with a row of staples, about 3mm from the edge. Turn the sole over and bend the staples flat with pliers. 6. Stick the cork tile sole shapes to the sandals using a glue gun. 7. Thread the thong through the holes. |
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Rufus' little cart and leather sandals were made by Year 5 pupils at Moreton Hall Prep School. Eleanor played Rufus in a televised performance! | |||||||||||||||||||
We made several different designs of sandal. Lepidina's sandals (on the right) have a triangle of leather, stapled at the sides and attached with a stitched toe thong. They are decorated with gold marker. Flavius' sandals (left) have holes drilled all around the sole and a flat piece stapled at the front. They were the hardest to fit! |
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