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 ...

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 ...

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.

When it comes to shoemaking, Lila Almario belongs to true-blue royalty. Her grandfather, Julio Gregorio, was King of Philippine Shoemakers from the 1950s to the 1970s. Anybody who went for top quality ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...