By looking at images of shoemakers and cordwainers at work, we can better understand the tools, materials, and techniques of shoemaking. This set of links also includes people selling shoes or boots. See also Schuhsohlen, Halbmond und Kneipe als Schuster-Attribute.

• A tanner and a shoemaker, Reiner Musterbuch (ÖNB 507, fol. 2r), c. 1200-1220
• A shop where boots and shoes are sold (and made?) in a detail from the Frescoes of the Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, c. 1338-1340
• Shoemaker's awl, Vienna, 15th century
• Detail of a fresco of craftsmen working on the Sabbath from the Church of St. Jacob at St. Ulrich in Groöden, South Tyrol, c. 1450-1475
That noo persone Cordewaner or Cobeler within youre Cite of London, or within III myles in eny part of the same Cite, what soever he be, within fraunchises or withoute, make or doo to be made after the fest of Ester that shalle be in the yere of oure lord a. MCCCCLXV, eny Shoes, Galoges or Botes, with eny other pyke that shall passe the lengh or mesure of II ynches.

Rolls of Parliament 5.566b

• A tanner and a shoemaker, Schachzabelbuch of Konrad von Ammenhausen (WLB Cod. poet. 2, fol. 200v), 1467
• The legend of St. Crispinus and St. Crispinianus from an altar triptych, 1470
• A booth where shoes are sold (and made?) in an illustration of currency as a a measure of commercial trade, Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, and Economics (Rouen I.2 927, fol. 145r), 15th century
• An animal at a shoemaker's workshop speaks to the author, Dialogus Creaturarum, 1482
• Two members of the shoemakers' guild as donors, Aert van den Bossche, c. 1491-1500
• Marketplace frescoes at Issogne, late 15th-early 16th century (detail)
• Drawing of a man working at a workbench attributed to Filippino Lippi, 15th-16th century
• "Souliers vieulx," the reseller of shoes, Les cris de Paris, c. 1500
• A man carrying several pairs of kuhlmaul shoes on a pair of poles by Albrecht Altdorfer (see Shoes in 16th century Germany) from the Triumph of Maximilian, c. 1512
• Detail from The Shoemakers' Workshop of St. Crispin and St. Crispian, c. 1515-1525
• A shoe-last in a Satire of the merchant's greed by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c. 1550-1560
• The shoemaker, Das Ständebuch, 1568
• Shield of the shoemakers' guild of Bruges, 1569
• A shoemaker's shop (from Shoes in 16th century Germany)
• Spectacles in New discoveries; the sciences, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as represented in 24 engravings issued in the early 1580's by Stradanus