It has been a long break but we are finally back at doing what we love doing. We will begin work on a new pair of ruby slippers in early July.

Before we do, we want to show you the heels that we use on our shoes. We made these wooden shoe heels so they are not available anywhere else. They are very hard to make because we're cutting solid wood into the correct curve shape of a heel.

These are an exact reproduction of the 1930's style wooden heels used on the "Witch's Shoes", the best pair of ruby slippers in size 5B worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

MGM made several pairs of ruby slippers, but the size 5B "Witch's Shoes" pair used in the Munchkinland scenes had slightly longer and thinner heels than other pairs so that the ruby slippers look a bit more "sexy".

We have perfected a process to create an exact copy of this particular type of heel so this is another area of our work that we're very good at making.

Exact reproduction wooden shoe heels on the original ruby slippers

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Two Questions:

a.) How many hours of hand-sewing?

2.) Are the bows the same on the two different pairs of ruby red slippers?

This is a pair of hand-sewn bows that we will be using on this pair of ruby slippers. Every stones and beads are sewn firmly onto a red silk fabric to perfection with thin leather overlay.

Hand-sewn ruby slipper bows

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A labor of love, truly indeed. What kind of leather do you use?
Do you use magnifying device to see when sewing on the sequins?

  Did some research and your Ruby Red Slippers are the highest quality replicas made in the entire world. Congratulations are in order. Your attention to detail and authenticity is what makes these an "object de art". Excellent work Miss Saovaluck!

Not kind words, just the truth. The quality is something I associate with Japanese meticulousness. Since you refuse to make shoes for men, could you make me a Tin Man Hat?

We have started sewing the sequins directly onto the right shoe following the same technique as the original ruby slippers.

Sequining to perfection on the right shoe in the early stages

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The bows have been made, but they are not sewn onto the shoes until the very end, when we finish sequining the shoes. We just put it on there temporarily for photo purposes only to show how the shoe will look with the bow.

Yes, we always start sewing the sequins from the toe towards the back of the shoe and heel. It's a very long process because we want to make sure the sequins start and finish perfectly on the edge of the shoe.