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Wooden shoes, Clogs, typican dutch shoes, Amsterdam, Netherlands Royalty Free Stock Photo

Wooden shoes, Clogs, typican dutch shoes, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wooden shoes fabrication in a typical dutch laboratory , Clogs, Amsterdam, Netherlands Royalty Free Stock Photo

Every town or suburb used to have his own clog maker in The Netherlands. It would take 3-4 hours to make one pair of wooden shoes by hand. First with a pull saw you had to slice the tree trunk. Then the slice needed to be split and given the rough shape with a special small axe. With a sharp knife the clog maker would smooth the shape of the clog on the outside before scooping out the wood from th