Traditional & Heritage Boots

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A weekly podcast visiting the workshops, factories and makers keeping traditional bootmaking alive — hand-welting, stitchdown construction, heritage work boots, and the people who still build them to be repaired, not replaced. traditionalheritageboots.substack.com

1d ago

Grant Stone: The Modern Goodyear-Welted Boot

Aoi and Ren visit Grant Stone — the Expo's presenting sponsor, founded in 2016 by Randy and Wyatt Gilmore — and ask how Goodyear-welted boots made in Xiamen from Horween, C.F. Stead and Badalassi leathers keep the built-to-be-repaired idea alive at an accessible price, two days before Stitchdown Expo 2026 opens in Chicago. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com
3d ago

The Japanese Contingent at Stitchdown Expo 2026

Aoi and Ren meet the four Japanese exhibitors heading to Stitchdown Expo 2026 in Chicago — Shinki-Hikaku and Tochigi Leather, wholesaler Hashimoto Industry, and Addict Clothes Japan — and trace the exchange between American bootmaking and Japanese craft. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com
5d ago

Horween: The Chicago Tannery Behind the Boots

Aoi and Ren visit Horween Leather Company in Chicago — founded in 1905, still family-run, still tanning shell cordovan and Chromexcel on the Chicago River — and look ahead to its home-city turn at Stitchdown Expo 2026. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com
Oct 29

Nick’s Handmade Boots: The Spokane Workshop Behind the SGB Line

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com
Oct 28

Stitchdown Expo 2026: Boots, Leather, and Two Days in Chicago

Aoi and Ren preview Stitchdown Expo 2026 — the Chicago gathering where heritage bootmakers meet the dress-shoe world of the Super Trunk Show. The tannery-heavy lineup from Horween to Himeji, the hands This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com
Oct 27

Wesco and the Boot That Can Be Rebuilt

Aoi and Ren visit Wesco, the family workshop in Scappoose, Oregon — the Boss engineer boot, the 155-step hand process, and boots built to be rebuilt, not replaced. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com
Oct 27

Traditional and Heritage Boots: Why Hand-Welting Survives

Aoi and Ren ask why hand-welting survives in an age of cemented soles — White's Boots, Viberg's channeled insole, and Tokyo's hand-welted makers, CLINCH, John Lofgren and Rolling Dub Trio. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit traditionalheritageboots.substack.com

7 Episodes

A weekly podcast visiting the workshops, factories and makers keeping traditional bootmaking alive — hand-welting, stitchdown construction, heritage work boots, and the people who still build them to be repaired, not replaced. traditionalheritageboots.substack.com

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Traditional & Heritage Boots
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2026
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7
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Clean
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Traditional & Heritage Boots

Traditional & Heritage Boots

Episodes

Grant Stone: The Modern Goodyear-Welted Boot

The Japanese Contingent at Stitchdown Expo 2026

Horween: The Chicago Tannery Behind the Boots

Nick’s Handmade Boots: The Spokane Workshop Behind the SGB Line

Stitchdown Expo 2026: Boots, Leather, and Two Days in Chicago

Wesco and the Boot That Can Be Rebuilt

Traditional and Heritage Boots: Why Hand-Welting Survives

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