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 ...

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 ...

Lisandro Serra Delmar makes shoes full-time at his workshop in rural Herefordshire An artisan shoemaker who has been making shoes by hand for more than 15 years has described it as a "dying art".

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.

The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is launching a new prize for the 2025 edition of its annual Footwear Awards to celebrate and promote Britain's shoemaking heritage. Called the Craft of Shoemaking ...

BELLVUE — Look down at your feet. You're probably wearing sneakers or sandals, maybe slippers or hiking boots. Have you ever given even one minute's thought to how they're made or from what? Bellvue ...

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 ...

For Douglas Clark, the darkest part of working for Nike in the 1980s was watching American shoe manufacturing "evaporate" in the Northeast in a mass exodus to Asia in pursuit of cheaper labor. "As a ...

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 ...