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Visiting Nasser Vies

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Nasser Vies is a bespoke shoemaker in Toronto. Paul Kitchener took the Society's Norwegian visitor, Alf B. Luneborg, to his shoemaking shop in late January 2015, at the end of four days that had also taken in the Bata Shoe Museum; Eugene Pik was there too. It was not the first time the Society had met him; Nasser Vies spoke and demonstrated at the Toronto branch's meeting of 10 January 1990, and was so well received that the branch reported rapt attention, and that he held Ruth Haig's formulation for beeswax to be the best he had used. The visit is reported in the Society's newsletter for Winter 2014–2015, pages 4 and 5, which names everyone present; the 1990 demonstration is in the Toronto branch's own report to the 40th Annual Meeting, page 18.

Three men talk around a cluttered shoemaker's bench in a small shop
Three men talk around a cluttered shoemaker's bench in a small shop
A pair of black leather ankle boots on a stool beside a shoemaker's bench of tools
A pair of black leather ankle boots on a stool beside a shoemaker's bench of tools
Three men stand together smiling in a shoemaker's workshop lined with shoes on shelves
Three men stand together smiling in a shoemaker's workshop lined with shoes on shelves
Three men pose in front of shelves of shoes in a shoemaker's workshop, one holding a camera
Three men pose in front of shelves of shoes in a shoemaker's workshop, one holding a camera
An old shoe finishing machine with brushes above a rack of wooden shoe lasts
An old shoe finishing machine with brushes above a rack of wooden shoe lasts
Shelves of handmade shoes and boots above a long rack of wooden-handled shoemaking tools
Shelves of handmade shoes and boots above a long rack of wooden-handled shoemaking tools
A man in a winter coat and toque stands in a crowded shoemaker's workshop with blue walls
A man in a winter coat and toque stands in a crowded shoemaker's workshop with blue walls
Shelves of wooden shoe lasts above a carved leather ship panel and a framed print
Shelves of wooden shoe lasts above a carved leather ship panel and a framed print
Worn wooden shoe lasts piled on a stool beside an old machine
Worn wooden shoe lasts piled on a stool beside an old machine
A shoemaker's corner with shelves of tools, books and supplies around a desk and phone
A shoemaker's corner with shelves of tools, books and supplies around a desk and phone
A wooden shelf unit of pliers, dyes and finishes beside a desk with a laptop and phone
A wooden shelf unit of pliers, dyes and finishes beside a desk with a laptop and phone
A wall of handmade shoes and boots on shelves above a row of hanging shoemaking tools
A wall of handmade shoes and boots on shelves above a row of hanging shoemaking tools
An old Simonin-Blanchard of Paris tool chart showing rows of leatherworking tools
An old Simonin-Blanchard of Paris tool chart showing rows of leatherworking tools

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