The opening of the GENTLE CRAFT shoe museum was on October 24th 2003, the night before Saint Crispin’s day. In many parts of Europe Saint Crispin and his brother Crispinan where considered to be the patron saints of shoe makers, leather workers and tanners.
It is said one has to start small…
The smallest shoe known to the world measures 12μm (Micrometer) or 0,000472 Inch, a human hair is between 80 and 100μm thick. This sandal was specially made in 2005 for the smallest museum in town by Tristan Bret, then doctorial student at the polytechnicum in Lausanne. It is so small we can’t even see it with our optic microscope.
