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Shoegazing Podcast - Ep. 33, Rob James, Euroleathers, about leather wholesaling
Shoegazing Podcast

Shoegazing Podcast – Ep. 34, Rob James, Euroleathers, about leather wholesaling

2025-04-21
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Leather wholesalers play a vital part of the shoe industry in every country of the world that produces leather footwear. Euroleathers is based in Northampton, England, and has been providing the local factories for decades as well as single hides to small independent shoemakers worldwide. Learn more about the work leather wholesalers do and get a behind the scenes insight of this sector of the shoe world.

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Buying tip – Three highly interesting shoe brands

2025-02-23
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I’ve done a few of these articles, highlighting three brands  that are relatively unknown to the masses, either for being very new or for other reasons. This time it’s the Japanese MTO brand Lightbulb, the established Chinese brand Twinkima.G who now seem to start looking more internationally as well, and former Cleverley head lastmaker Adam Law’s own bespoke brand.

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History - The true story of Nicolaus Tuczek
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History – The true story of Nikolaus Tuczek

2025-01-18
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Nikolaus Tuczek is one of the most acclaimed shoemakers in history, with an almost mythical gloria around him. Wrongly so. The Tuczek story is not about one brilliant man, it’s about several generations of a hard working family who had to fight and overcome many challenges, until a pair of slippers finally took them down. Bespoke shoemaker and shoe historian at his leisure William Efe Laborde is here to unveil the truth in an ambitious attempt at documenting a history of that great and misunderstood firm, in this guest article that also includes some unique photos.

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News - Pediwear is back
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News – Pediwear is back

2024-11-01
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One of the classic British online stores for quality men’s shoes is back in business. Two year’s ago they closed to store and sold of all the stock. One thought that was it. But now Pediwear has re-opened, with quite a large stock from several brands like Carlos Santos, Carmina, Tricker’s, Sanders and so on.

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News - The Sargent factory closed again
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News – The Sargent factory closed again

2024-10-24
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Three years ago the Alfred Sargent brand went into liquidation, and from that the Paul Sargent brand emerged with the same factory, models, lasts and so on. Aim was to finally give a Sargent brand the attention it deserved, but sadly, things has not gone as planned. Now the factory in Rushden, Northamptonshire, is once again closed, and all workers have been laid off.

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World Championships of Shoemaking 2025 - Call for competition
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World Championships of Shoemaking 2025 – Call for competition

2024-09-22
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Time for the sixth edition of the World Championships of Shoemaking, where the final takes place during the London Super Trunk Show on May 10 2025. In the prize pool we have £6,000 (€7,200 / $7,800), handmade shoemaking awls, and a chance to be showcased in shoe stores around the world. This year a double monk strap is to be made for the competition. Here’s all the info about the contest.

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