On a snowy day roughly 12 years ago, shoemaker Anne Marika Verploegh Chassé’s train pulled into a city she had never heard of — Providence, Rhode Island. Carrying a bag of shoe samples, Chassé walked ...
As a young woman in the 70s, Sara McIntosh, founder of the Chicago School of Shoemaking in Ravenswood, was a part of the back-to-the-land movement. She built a log cabin, bought a cow, grew her own ...
If you thought woven leather was invented by the Italians, think again. To celebrate its 150th anniversary, British shoe brand Grenson has created—or rather recreated—some milestone styles, like the ...
"It's so stressful!" "I've got a headache from concentrating so hard!" "My hand's cramping up from gripping the knife so tightly!" We might have been a tense team of surgeons, embarked on an all-day ...
Sara McIntosh made her first pair of shoes in 1974. Her baby girl (who’s now 47) was starting to walk, and McIntosh wanted to craft a pair of soft-soled shoes to hug and protect her little feet.
John Karandonis, once Australia's most famous shoemaker, grew up without shoes in Nazi-occupied Crete. Karandonis is now a silver-haired old man, but his eyes shine – his pupils seem literally to glow ...
There's a scarcity of skilled zapateros, a situation blamed on the treatment of previous shoemakers who earned less than their artisan status deserved MANILA, Philippines – Marikina, once a farming ...
A county remains the "shoemaking capital of the world" despite decades of change, industry bosses have said. The British Footwear Association (BFA), based in Northamptonshire, has now represented the ...
A county remains the "shoemaking capital of the world" despite decades of change, industry bosses have said. The British Footwear Association (BFA), based in Northamptonshire, has now represented the ...
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