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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Skilled craftsmen and artisans once dominated the shoemaking business before factories took over, but a North Side shop is bringing the art back to the people with new classes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.