Woodrow's Step-by-Step Machines

 1. The first machine nails and glues the sole onto the shoe. This is after the shoe is stitched together by the sewing team!

2. Next, the shoe is taken to have its shine taken off. This machine is called the bottom rougher and stops the sole being slippy and gives it more grip.

3. The shoe is then taken to be polished and glued together thoroughly. It is then put through this drying machine.

4. It is then finally dried again in a smaller drying machine. It is then ready to be packaged and sold in the Van Dal shop next door.

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Woodrow Shoes

Today we visited Florida Shoes, a shoe factory in Norwich. They are famous for Van Dal shoes and a history of working in Norwich as shoe makers. They have factories all around the world including China and Italy where they get their materials. It takes 2-3 months to crteate a shoe from the drawing board to the shops, during 2 weeks some shoes are in other parts of the world being put together.

       Florida shoes have been making shoes for 75 years since 1936 (see right) and make 7,000,000 pairs a year, thats about 525,000,000  pairs of shoes sice they started! They get most of their materials for China but the more expensive ones come from Itay. I have writen up a step-by-step guide on how to make shoes in my Sketch books too.

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Vet Woodrow

Today, we went to town for our Artefact and Campaign units. During Campaign we spoke to the manager of the Vetinary Health Centre and asked about the equipment that they use, the shops opening and other background information for our shoes. They had many needles and pins to use in operations and x-ray machines that were used to find the problem. We have pictures of all these aswel as the operation tables and even some of the animals! The photos will be on the blog when they have been transfered onto the computer.

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The First Post

Hello, Welcome to my Blog and First Post. I am part of a school diploma, Creative and Media and have created this blog to show my creations and my work from the diploma. Already I have started to make a pair of shoes out of felt and started a capmaign project. Don't worry, I will post all this when it is complete. Until then, please look around and visit the rest of my blog.

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