Shoe Repair Measures

Shoe Repair MeasuresIn the field of shoe repair there are many types of measures used.

Ye Olde Cobbler used a measure called the "Iron" or "°" to measure the thickness (ie. 12°) of the materials he used to repair shoes.

Europe changed to the metric system and so their manufacturers started referring to their products with a Milimeter measurement (ie. 9mm).

In America, where people usually picked up how to do stuff and weren't formally trained, stuck to fractions of inches (ie. ¼") to measure thickness.

I made this chart as a scale to put on various repair publications. It makes a comparison between inches, iron and milimeters. The image above is not to scale. The actual size would be the same as the chart would imply: 1 inch.

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