Quswa Patina Wholecut Shoes

Walk the historical battle of Badr - with these astonishing custom-engraved whole cuts.    Hand-cut from raw high-grade Italian crust leather, shoe patterns are engraved with beautiful hand-sketched Arabic calligraffiti. Applying natural dyes and oils -and lots of savoir-faire- our Maestro colorist achieves this unique and staggering look that we call "crust" Patina. After much hand brushing and polishing, the glacé effect is jaw-dropping, as you can see in the pictures.   Original Goodyear welted using traditional techniques, they feature our fiddled waist leather sole and metal tow tap. And it's no coincidence that we chose the leather sole for this particular shoe: having the slimmest profile it’s often considered the dressiest of all of them. Besides that, it's hardwearing, flexible, practical, long-lasting, and beautiful.   What to say about the last? Used on some of our most refined hand-finished shoes, the "Fiddled waist" shoe-last is the result of many rounds of refinement to c