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How to break in a new pair of leather boots
Good leather does not need punishing to soften. Wear the boots around the house for an hour or two a...
Why we stitch soles instead of gluing them
A glued sole is quick to make and impossible to replace properly. Once it lifts, that is usually the...
Looking after leather in a Cape winter
When it's about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all
What full-grain leather actually means
Full-grain is the outer layer of the hide with nothing sanded off it. You can see the grain, the odd...
Inside the Sir Lowry Road workshop
Everything starts flat. A hide goes on the cutting table, the pattern gets moved around the scars, a...
Getting your shoe size right when ordering online
Stand on a sheet of paper with your heel to the wall and mark the longest toe, then measure in centi...
When is a pair worth resoling?
Look at the welt, the stitched seam where the sole meets the upper. If that is sound and the leather...
School shoes that survive a whole year
Children destroy shoes at the toe first, scuffing them along tarmac and dragging them off the back o...
