Shop Talk

1 min. di lettura

Is custom shoemaking an endangered art form? “I think it was in danger of dying. But, I don’t think that anymore,” said Amara Hark- Weber, who owns and operates Hark-Weber Handmade Shoes, in St. Paul, Minnesota. But, she acknowledged that certain dif

Bride & Groom

2 min. di lettura

Michael thanked his groomsmen for being part of his wedding day by gifting them with a bottle of whiskey and personalised glasses. Super stylish! See more from Anna and Michael's wedding on pages 106-109 Photos by Two Birds and Co. Zorilla offer an e

Shop Talk

18 min. di lettura

In the late 1970s, there was a growing consensus in Texas that Ray Jones just might be the best bootmaker in the state, if not the country. So, when Ray abruptly announced his retirement in 1977 at age 65, he shocked his clients and the entire bootma

Shop Talk

1 min. di lettura

Find a wide selection of how-to books on boot and shoemaking, plus free guides and machine manuals on the website: www.sorrell.shop. Ask for available machine manuals not uploaded yet, if you need one not on the website. “How to Make Cowboy Boots” (8

American Craft

3 min. di lettura

WALKING INTO A SHOEMAKER’S WORKSHOP, THE first thing you notice is the smell – the heavy scents of leather, polish, and dust. Looking around, you see tools – the hammers and awls and pincers and finishing irons and razor-sharp knives. Most likely the

Storytime

3 min. di lettura

Once upon a time, there was a shoemaker who had fallen on hard times. Every day, he worked until the early hours, yet he barely had enough money to buy food or fuel to heat his home. It came to be that all he had left in the world was enough leathe

GQ India

1 min. di lettura

How do you feel when you see your favourite pair of Italian-made leather shoes walking their last walk? Or a carefully stowed away luxury belt emerging damaged thanks to godforsaken moisture? What about when a drink falls all over your expensive wall

Shop Talk

8 min. di lettura

The Weaver Leather Auction, hosted by Weaver Leather, started in 1984 as a way for people to buy and sell equipment. From humble beginnings, it’s grown into a yearly anticipated event. This year saw nearly 400 registered buyers and a total attendance

Inked

2 min. di lettura

From a very young age, I’ve always had a desire to build things—from backyard forts to Lego sets. However, by the time I entered high school as an introverted freshman, I found a way to express myself by wearing sneakers. It all started when I wore a

Saturday Star

1 min. di lettura

CLUJ: A Romanian cobbler who made giant shoes to help keep people apart during the first wave of Covid-19 has come up with a new line of huge winter boots to stamp out the second onslaught of the disease. ■

Harper's Bazaar Australia

3 min. di lettura

‘LIFE IS SHORT. Buy the shoes!’ reads a cushion resting on the bed of the British accessory designer Sophia Webster. It’s just one of the many playful touches in her east London house that reflects her mission to put the fun back into luxury fashion.

Pretoria News Weekend

1 min. di lettura

CLUJ: A Romanian cobbler who made giant shoes to help keep people apart during the first wave of Covid-19 has come up with a new line of huge winter boots to stamp out the second onslaught of the disease. ■

Weekend Argus Saturday

1 min. di lettura

CLUJ: A Romanian cobbler who made giant shoes to help keep people apart during the first wave of Covid-19 has come up with a new line of huge winter boots to stamp out the second onslaught of the disease. ■

Wild

3 min. di lettura

The story of SCARPA, Italy’s legendary bootmaking company—maker of the world’s first Goretex-lined hiking boot, the first plastic mountaineering boot, and the first plastic telemark boot—begins not with innovation, or attention to detail, or quality

The Rake

5 min. di lettura

In the world of traditional British luxury, Crockett & Jones stands head and shoulders above its compatriots as a shoemaker of nigh-on titanic proportions. Founded in 1879 in Northampton, Britain’s fine-shoemaking hub, the company has remained family

Our State: Celebrating North Carolina

4 min. di lettura

IN A SPRAWLING industrial park just south of Asheville is the modest shoe factory where Justin and Amanda James design and manufacture their Opie Way brand of stylish sneakers. The place smells of rich leather. Reams of canvas and luxuriously tanned

Shop Talk

5 min. di lettura

Longtime Chicago-area shoe repairman John Vlagos chuckles recalling his reaction upon first learning that his son, George, was starting the handmade footwear business, Oak Street Bootmakers. “I freaked out, you know,” says the father, with obvious pr

Inc.

1 min. di lettura

Kory and Mallory Stevens → TAFT Three-year growth 4,794.6% • 2017 revenue $5.7 million PROVO, UTAH • FOUNDED 2014 Many business ideas have been hatched over dinner. Online shoe startup Taft actually launched one during dinner. Co-founders Kory and

Cycling Plus

3 min. di lettura

£330 Anniversary footwear from Sidi This Italian brand’s reputation as a shoemaker is legendary as it was Sidi that revolutionised cycling footwear from its leather and metal-plate soles into the lightweight, tech-laden shoes that we wear today. Sidi

Shop Talk

6 min. di lettura

In our modern era of mass-manufactured, big-brand footwear, a person’s desire for a pair of new shoes can be quickly satisfied. Does this mean that the curtain is falling forever on the one-of-a-kind, handcrafted shoe? For an answer, take a look at t

Blue Mountains Life

2 min. di lettura

Maison Montage embraces the mood of winter with new collections from THE ARK, CABLE MELBOURNE, NIKEL & SOLE and ELK. Discover cosy styles for ultimate warmth and comfort, along with easy layers and wardrobe essentials with a sense of effortless style

Chicago magazine

3 min. di lettura

Chicago School of Shoemaking and Leather Arts You don’t have to be an anticonsum-erist Marie Kondo type to want to make your own shoes (and if you are, well, a handmade pair certainly won’t hurt your cred). Master cobbler Sara McIntosh guides student

Nadia

3 min. di lettura

In the Wellington suburb of Newtown, between a fish-and-chip shop and an abandoned paint store, stands a tiny, whitewashed building. Open the door and you’ll be hit with the aroma of leather, nubuck and suede. Vintage Singer sewing machines and shiny

Blue Mountains Life

1 min. di lettura

Styles in footwear come and go, but quality is never out of fashion. Blackheath Family Shoe Store has been satisfying the needs of families of the Blue Mountains for 99 years, and is held in the highest regard throughout the region for excellence in

Shop Talk

2 min. di lettura

Amara Hark-Weber of St. Paul, Minnesota, took her first serious steps down the shoemaking path in 2013. In only six years, she has gone from making glued-together, concept footwear created for her MFA thesis at the School of the Art Institute of Chic

Blue Mountains Life

4 min. di lettura

Maison Montage embraces the mood of winter with new collections from THE ARK, CABLE MELBOURNE, NIKEL & SOLE and ELK. Discover cosy styles for ultimate warmth and comfort, along with easy layers and wardrobe essentials with a sense of effortless style

Harper's Bazaar India

1 min. di lettura

City living brings many challenges, and shabby shoes and wornin bags are two that can make your daily routine a little less pleasant. While not all shoes and handbags are created equally, they all require special attention after normal wear and tear.

Shop Talk

5 min. di lettura

And so that’s when I became the annoying English lady,” says Austin, Texas shoemaker Zoé Rios with a chuckle. A native of Windsor, the town on the Thames where the British royal family’s castle was built in the 11th century, the distinctly unannoying

Shop Talk

3 min. di lettura

It seems like Dave Schall, the president and co-owner of Keystone Leather in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was always destined to fill this role. Now 58, Dave Schall finished college in 1982 and went to work for the E.H. Hall Company, which was a sole

Blue Mountains Life

2 min. di lettura

Styles in footwear come and go, but quality is never out of fashion. Blackheath Family Shoe Store has been satisfying the needs of families of the Blue Mountains for 99 years, and is held in the highest regard throughout the region for excellence in