(NNPA Newswire) – The craft of shoemaking was at one time difficult and manual work. But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, cobblers and cordwainers cut, sewed, and tacked shoes with ...

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Have you ever had a custom-made shoe? If you lived in a previous century you likely would have. Prior to 1859, when American engineer Lyman Blake invented a sole-sewing machine, shoe-making was ...

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A university graduate proves that the days of small beginning should not be despised. Starting small as a cobbler, he has become an entrepreneurial model for youths, showing the way in self-sustenance ...

Dozens of workers at a shoe factory in southern China’s Dongguan city glue, sew and buff foam slippers and canvas shoes. They punch every hole and lace every shoe by hand. “Every lacing is [done] ...

Portland's Made in Old Town project aims to make a stateside manufacturing hub for sports-apparel makers. Its backers Hilos and the Technology Association of Oregon hope to generate 6,000 jobs as soon ...