Today, Cole Haan unveils a new collection of leather loafers and oxfords that are entirely made in the small town of Lewiston in Maine. It has partnered with five expert leatherworkers who make each ...
ROCKY RIVER, OHIO — Lots of women love shoes, but only a few love them enough to want to make their own. But Michaela Reynolds did. The Rhode Island woman came to Rocky River to learn at the bench of ...
Miru Wong, 33, grew up with her grandparents in Hong Kong and helped out at the family shoemaking shop. For her final year project in college, she worked on a rebrand for the family business. She's ...
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 ...
In a loft space on a quiet block in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, several middle-aged women and men huddle over handmade work tables covered with cutting mats, carefully forming and sewing pieces ...
The first shoemaker came to the American colonies on the Mayflower in 1629. Early colonists brought boots and shoes, and soon the trade of cobbler, to repair existing footwear, developed. Gradually ...
PARTIZÁNSKE, the city once called Baťovany, was one of the industrial centres of shoe mogul Tomáš Baťa. But today there are only a few feeble reminders in the Trenčín region - such as the big shoe ...
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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