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 ...

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 are in love with shoes, like Leanne Corcoran is, you think a lot about what’s on your feet. You might often ponder Oxfords versus pumps, or the balance of beauty and comfort, ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Karandonis, once Australia's most famous shoemaker, grew up without shoes in Nazi-occupied Crete. Karandonis is now a silver-haired ...

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.

San Antonio-born shoe designer Selena McCartney creates stilettos destined for the runway and the red carpet, but in a small East Austin studio on a recent Saturday, she taught a handful of students ...

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 ...