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Please remember there are NO original extant period moccasins (that I've seen) having wool uppers. While wool may have been used applied to flaps or vamps as a color accent, the wool was not "structural". These are reminiscent of modern moccasins with leather bottoms and canvas tops. That isn't to say wool blanketing was not used, but it was most likely used as wraps and moccasins worn over. Winter moccasins were most likely/usually oversized versions of everyday moccasins with something else used as insulation (Deer hair, leaves, blanket material, other). Occasionally, they were made with hair-on hide with the hair turned to the inside. There is a unique method (that might not be appropriate for your period/area), the "hock" moccasin, where the hide from the lower leg of an elk/moose was removed as a tube, the hide tanned (maybe), the bottom sewn shut, turned hair-in and slipped on much like a sock (The joint area served as a natural heel/ankle area).Cruzatte said:
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