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Tutorial: Making Iron Age, Viking, Irish ghillies leather shoes

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Some time ago we published in your fantasy costume a post about  this kind of shoes that are called Ghillies in our previous article "Medieval moccasins and ghillies for Highlanders, irish goblins and fairies". Some pictures below so you can make an idea, and go and visit the step by step tutorial  in Therese´s blog Earth and living.

 

Medieval moccasins and ghillies for Highlanders, irish goblins and fairies

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We´ve all seen drawings in old books of Irish fairy tales with those fancy to dance all night away with goblins and fairies... Ghillies are typical soft  leather shoes for irish and scottish dancing in fact and have a lovely ancient traditional historical look For an accurate definition read this wikipedia article about them (yes I know this term is also used for some camouflage material as we´ll cover in the future). Surfing the net I found the perfect site for them...