Narmukhametova N.M.,
Zhuztayev Zh.B.
L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
The Cobbler words everywhere
“A
shoemaker should not judge above his shoes”
“The
son of the shoemaker has no shoes”.
(English proverbs)
Shoemaking is the process of making
footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional
handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes
produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in
quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship.
Shoemakers
or cordwainers (cobblers being those who repair shoes) may produce a range of
footwear items, including shoes, sandals, clogs and moccasins. Such items are
generally made of leather, wood, rubber, plastic, jute or other plant material,
and often consist of multiple parts for better durability of the soul, stitched
to a leather upper.
Shoes appeared at an early stage of human development. In different
periods of history, it has changed, improved, performing functions: protection,
comfort, a reflection, of the inner world, the indicator status.
In the literature, shoes change the lives of
heroes brings fabulous wealth and
happiness. Shoes are seen in different genres: songs, proverbs,
tongue-twisters, quotes, sayings.
Shoemakers
were in the proverbs of different nations.
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Shoemakers are always the worst
shod. (French proverb)
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The tailor ill-dressed, the
shoemaker ill-shod. (Portuguese proverb)
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A shoemaker’s wife and a smith’s
mare are always the worst shod. (Spanish
proverb)
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Shoemakers go to mass and pray that
sheep may die. (Spanish proverb)
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The shoemaker’s son always goes
barefoot. (Danish proverb)
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The shoemakers children go barefoot.
(Danish proverb)
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Shoemaker stick to your last. (Danish proverb)
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The shoemaker’s child goes barefoot.
(Turkish proverb)
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The shoemaker’s shoes have no heels.
(Persian proverb)
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If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he
will dream of being a professor. (Yiddish
proverb)
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The medicine that cures the tailor
can kill the shoemaker. (Spanish proverb)
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The mare of the smith and the
children of the shoemaker, always goes barefooted. (Spanish proverb)
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None more bare than the shoemaker’s
wife and the smith’s mare. (Romanian
proverb)
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Three simple shoemakers equal one
brilliant strategist. (Chinese proverb)
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The shoemaker’s wife and the
blacksmith’s horse often go unshod. (Irish
proverb)
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Let the shoemaker remain at his
last. (Hungarian proverb)
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Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft
maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft,
and a curse on thy head will be called.
(Norse proverb)
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There’s no hurry, said the shoemaker,
he had gruel with his awl. (Swedish
proverb)
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Three humble shoemakers
brainstorming make a great statesman. (Chinese
proverb)
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The cobbler should not go beyond his
last. (Latin proverb)
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The cobbler’s gaze is on the feet. (Goan proverb)
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There will be trouble if the cobbler
starts making pies. (Russian proverb)
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A cobbler formed the shape of shoes
on a wooden foot shaped last. If it lasted long he was happy. (English proverb)
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Let the cobbler Paul grumble, he
should only make good sandals. (Hungarian
proverb)
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There was often a bad cloth on a
tailor and a bad shoe on a cobbler. (Irish
proverb)
Shoe
saying perform people’s need in wearing items protecting their feet from
discomfort, pain, cold and heat. Shoe saying:
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“I cried because I had no shoes, then
I met a man who had no feet”.
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“Before you criticize, you should
walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile
away from them and you have their shoes”.
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“Don’t throw away your old shoes
until you have a new pair”.
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“Comfortable as an old shoe”.
Famous people did not ignore such necessary things as
shoes. They praised them, sometimes criticized cobblers dedicated them poems,
songs. A number of quotes witness their interest to this ancient trade. Poems:
The shoemaker – by Lulu Gee
The shoemaker – by Games Whitcomb Riley’s poem.
Shoemaker – by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Shoemaker – by Gaurav Juyal
Shoemaker’s Holiday, or The Gentle Craft – by Thomas
Dekker.
The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker – by William
Allingham.
The Shoemaker – by Jhon Greenleaf Whittier.
The Son of a Shoemaker – by Linda Black.
Quotes
“That is a very good question. I don’t know the
answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?” Arthur
Miller quotes (American playwright).
“Words sound be an intense pleasure just as leather
should be to a shoemaker” Evelyn Waugh quotes (English writer).
“She no thought of the play out of which her part was
taken, than a shoemaker thinks of the skin, out of which the piece of leather,
of which he is making a pair of shoes, is cut” Samuel Johnson quotes (English
poet, critic and writer).
“Ah, punster, would my lot were cast, Where the
cobbler is unknown, So that I might forget his last and hear your own – Gargo
Repsky” Ambrose Bierce quotes (American writer
journalist and editor).
“A cobbler, … produced several new grins of his own
invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last” – Joseph Addison Quotes.
“To one commending an orator for his skill in
amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: “I do not think that shoemaker a good
workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot” – Agesilaus, The Great
Quotes.
“Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself”–Robert
Burton Quotes.
“Ye tuneful cobblers! Still your notes prolong, compose at once a slipper and a song; So shall
the fair your handiwork peruse, Your sonnets sure shall please–perhaps your
shoes” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes
“The shoemaker a good shoe because he makes nothing
else” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes.
“If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you
would feel in what part it pinched you”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes.
“One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than
any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, it more stood upon than any
other thing in the world” – William Hazlitt.
“Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather”–
Frederick Locker-Lampson Quotes.
“Shoemaker, stick to your last” – Edward Moore Quotes.
“As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat
from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest”– Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist).
Teachers use different tongue-twisters as phonetic
drill practicing them in learning process. Tongue-twister about shoemaker:
Simon
Short-Smithfield’s Sole,
Surviving Shoemaker Shoes Soles,
Sewed Super-finely.
Our cobbler
is all cobbler’s cobbler,
nobody can over- cobbler our cobbler.
Mankind sang songs in different situations: feasts,
wars. Song took place in various professions and trades. We see cobblers in
such songs as:
Song “The
Cobbler”
Album: Hearty and Hellish
Oh, me name is Dick Darby, I’m a cobbler
I served my time at ould camp
Some call me an old agitator
But now I’m resolved to repent
It’s forty long years I have traveled
All by the contents of me pack
Me hammers, me awls and me pinchers
I carry them all on me back
Chorus:
With me ing-twing of an ing-thing of an i-doe
With me ing-twing of an ing-thing of an i-doe
With me roo-boo-boo- roo-boo-boo randy
And me lab stone keeps beating away
Oh, my wife she is humpy, she’ lumpy
Me wife she’s the devil, she’s cracked
And no matter what I may do with her
Her tongue, it clickety-clack
It was early one fine summer’s morning
A little before it was day
I dipped her three times in the river
And carelessly bade her “Good day”
Cobbler and the cowboy
Looking down where rows of shoes
Awaits his hand, no time to lose,
Looking up, up to time the street
Shoes again on passing feet.
This is all the cobbler knows –
Broken counters, scuffed-up toes,
This is all the cobbler feels-
Worn-out soles and run-down heels,
Until a child catastrophe
Breaks in an monotony,
A pint-size holster must be mended.
Looking down, he sews with care.
Reinforcing it for wear,
Looking up, his work repaid
In boyhood’s faith before him laid.
(by Melanie Maguire)
Shoe songs
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Arctic Monkeys-Dancing Shoes
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Traffic-Hole In My Shoe
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Gram Parsons & Emmylou
Harris-The New Soft Shoe
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Shed Seven-Devil in Your Shoes
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Paul Simon-Diamonds on the Soles of
Her Shoes
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Kirsty MacColl-In These Shoes?
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Elvis Presley-Blue Suede Shoes
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Elvis Costello-(The Angels Wanna
Wear My) Red Shoes
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Adam Ant-Goody Two Shoes
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Johnny Boy-You Are the Generation
That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve
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“The Little Shoemaker” based on the
French song, “Le petit cordonnier”, – by Rudi Revil. The Shoemaker Song – by
Willie Evans
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A Shoemaker Makes Shoes – Kid’s Song
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My Johnny Is a Shoemaker –an English
traditional song
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The little Shoemaker–by the Gaylords
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The Shoemaker’s Song–by Allen
Peabody
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The
Shoemaker (Shoemaker Named Schumann) –by Jock Strapp Ensemble
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The Little Shoemaker-by Petula
Clark.
Movies
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The
Shoemaker’s Holiday (Movie) 1938
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The
Shoemaker 2012
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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
(Croation film)
Even, toponymy did not avoid cobbler words in naming streets as it is
shown in American states
and cities.
Places
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Shoemaker St, Birmingham, AL
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Shoemaker St, Kitchener, Ontario,
Canada
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Shoemaker St, Detroit, MI
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Shoemaker St, Forty Fort, PA
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Shoemaker St, Swoyersville, PA
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Shoemaker St, Dunmore, PA
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Shoemaker St, NW, Washington D.C.
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Shoemaker St, Jackson, GA
The shoemaker profession makes a number of appearances
in popular culture, such as in stories about shoemaker’s elves and proverb “The
shoemaker’s children go barefoot”. The patron saint of shoemakers is Saint
Crispin.
Chefs and cooks sometimes use the term “shoemaker” as
an insult to others who have prepared substandard food, possibly by
overcooking, implying that the chef in question has made his or her as tough as
shoe leather or hard leather shoe soles, and thus may be in the wrong
profession.
Traditional shoemakers still exist today, especially
in poorer parts of the world, and create custom shoes. Current crafters, in
developing regions or supply constrained areas may use surplus car or truck
tire tread sections as an inexpensive and plentiful material resource to make
strong shoe soles or sandals with.
References:
1.
Art before History by Manpreet.
Bhatti
2.
Charles .W.Carey (2009) American
inventors Enterpreneurs and Business Visionaries. (Infobase. Publishing. p.27)
3.
“English industries of the Middle
Ages”, L.F. Salzman,1923
4.
en.wikipedia.org