BONUS PREVIEW: Brett Viberg Community Q&A at the Viberg NYC Shop
Last week we had our Stitchdown community's first gathering at the new Viberg NYC store—an honestly fabulous-looking little shop in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood that’s full of Viberg’s core classi...
19 Aug 202513min
(FREE) BONUS: A Look Inside China with Motiv & Arch Support Project's Samuel Wei
FREE Shoecast Bonus Episode—we've got plenty more for Stitchdown Premium subsribers Jason Pecarich of Division Road and Motiv/Arch Support Project co-founder Samuel Wei came on to discuss ASP's legiti...
13 Aug 202552min
How Japan's Astounding Bootmaking Culture Grew—And Where It's Going
It’s not a stretch to say there is no quality footwear culture quite like Japan’s. But WHY does the Japanese passion for making and wearing great boot and shoes exist? Well, I had to go to Tokyo to f...
5 Aug 202531min
How to Do YouTube Product Reviews Without Losing Your Soul, with The Iron Snail
The Iron Snail, aka Michael Kristy, is one of my favorite YouTube inhabitants, thanks to his legitimately unique approach to reviewing, historicizing, and manufacturing crazily high-quality footwear a...
1 Jul 20251h 28min
Developing Leather for Red Wing and More with SB Foot's Lacy Schumann
Since 1986, SB Foot Tanning Company is most known as the tannery owned by Red Wing, and with good reason: every bit of leather used on Red Wing Heritage footwear is developed and made by SB Foot just ...
18 Jun 20251h 28min
Women's Shoe Icon Stuart Weitzman on Nudists, Aretha Franklin & The First Shoe He Ever Sold
No conversation about the all-time great women's shoe designers is complete without a very long segue into Stuart Weitzman. Born into a shoemaking family who manufactured for decades in longtime US sh...
12 Jun 20251h 3min
How to Become a Bootmaker, With Oldspeed MFG's Dave Corey and New River Boot's Dave Mills
I had an absolute gas with Dave Mills of New River Boot, and Dave Corey of Oldspeed Manufacturing on this one. After years of being two of my favorite people on the internet to talk about footwear wit...
5 Jun 20251h 52min
Custom Cowboy Bootmaker Jake Houston on Preserving Knowledge, León Mexico, and Zebra Races
About a half hour from Reno, there’s a place called Virginia City Nevada, where everything feels like it’s 1859 and the US’s largest silver deposit was just discovered. The bars say saloon and look th...
15 Mai 20251h 46min
