Making a Mean Form: Brooklyn Shoe Space Patternmaking Basics

Keiko Hirosue of Brooklyn Shoe Space demonstrates how to create a mean form after you drew designs on the taped up last.
A mean form is important! Once you have a mean form from one last, one size, you can basically design more designs on the last without taping up the last. You can pick up the mean form, and trace, and mark the reference points, and draw.
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[@chamaradanushka2355]

Good lesson ,,,👍

[@Regnix5]

Thanks keiko I really like the way you explain

[@Abdulrasheed-ko8fe]

Good progress

[@Abdulrasheed-ko8fe]

Good tekneek

[@muhamedrizwan7909]

Aslamo aliakam mam nice amazing

[@muhammadali916]

is this work is not possible in adobe ??

[@volunking]

Wow exactly good like my teacher, Are you Korean?

[@benzflynn]

In your patterns the vamp and counter points are the same distance on the inside and outside of the pattern.
This does not happen with a last made for a real foot.

[@BrooklynShoeSpace]

Hi! Vamp and Counterpoint distance is slightly off- depends on the last- but mostly, one is a tad longer than the other. We average it to create a symmetric pattern. Are you thinking of the pivot points too? Those positions are offset as well since initial line we create is diagonal at the ball of the foot. We also average that out as well for the symmetry...I hope this makes sense. That is why we start at the fit/vamp point. and match the "same heel counter height" for both medial and lateral sides.

[@benzflynn]

@@BrooklynShoeSpace Just taped my own lasts and see that it's more like 10 mm of a difference at the heel top.
But for the life of me the only reason I can think of for doing this daft averaging of the quarters in men's shoes is to save on clicking die costs - which *was* a significant factor in mass produced shoes but simply doesn't apply in custom made shoes. (I say *was* as nowadays pattern pieces are cut from a hide by a laser-guided contour blade.)
Besides, you get more precision for each quarter when you make them individually.

[@BrooklynShoeSpace]

@@benzflynnmakes sense for bespoke lasts :)