Wooden Shoes Canvas Print

One says wooden shoes date back to the Middle Ages. However, this is not an undisputable truth. Because they are made out of trees, Mother Nature has taken most of the ‘old’ pieces back to herself. In the Netherlands the oldest wooden shoe ever found dates from 1230 ad. This shoe was found in 1979 by the Nieuwendijk, a historic street downtown Amsterdam. Another antique wooden shoe was found in 1990 in the dam that was built to close Rotterdam’s Rotte river. This wooden shoe, dating from 1280, can be seen at the Schielandshuis in Rotterdam. Both wooden shoes were made from alder. We can conclude with certainty that wooden shoes are worn for over 800 years, and probably even longer. Until the Middle Ages, it was quite common that people lived their lives walking on bear feet. Especially in the countryside shoes were out of reach for most people. Shoes were worn by the elitists. To protect their valuable shoes one used the so-called ‘trippen’ or ‘platijnen’. Trippen were wooden soles hav...

THE FINEARTAMERICA WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON ANY ORDERED ARTWORK. I am a retired physician with a longstanding keen interest in photography. I have been photographing for many years and have taken a variety of courses. I continue to be and have been juried into many art shows and I have won many awards in various contests I have entered. I have had several works at the Collectors Corner gift shop at the Toledo Art Museum. I have pieces in several art galleries, offices and restaurants. The Chop House in Toledo and Real Seafood in Naples have many of my images. My photographs are all actual photographs some of which have been "altered by photopainting" or manipulated for special effects on the computer rather than in the darkroom...