By definition, cordwainers make shoes from this material
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the cordwainer worked in the home: preparing raw materials,... [DOC] [TLE] Fashionable Shoes of the 18th and 19th Centuries and How They ... [PAR] Oct 16, 2010 ... Those who worked with fine leather were known as Cordwainers, named ... By 
1750 shoemakers were making shoes in different sizes for ....