Stitchdown Shoecast

Flora Knight Cowboy Bootmaker Guthrie Oklahoma

Flora Knight on Guthrie, Oklahoma’s Cowboy Bootmaking Lineage and That Time She Tried to Tan Her Own Leather

She was born in Canada and grew up in New Zealand, but few people could possibly seem more at home making bespoke cowboy boots in Guthrie, Oklahoma than Flora K... Read More...

Lots and Lots and Lots of Tokyo Boot Videos are Coming—Here’s a Preview

A few months back, I spent five days in Tokyo. I went, in many ways, to confirm a strong suspicion: that it is indeed the greatest city in the world for quality... Read More...

White's Boots President Eric Kinney and Division Road Inc Owner Jason Pecarich

Behind The Scenes of Footwear Development With White’s Boots President Eric Kinney & Jason from Division Road

In long-overdue returns to the Shoecast, White’s Boots President Eric Kinney and Division Road’s Jason Pecarich sat down to pull back the curtain on what it’s really like to develop new footwear products, getting into every twist and turn on past col... Read More...

The Shoecast is BACK for Season 12—With Singular Custom Shoemaker Amara Hark-Weber

Amara Hark-Weber surely must be one of the most delightful people in this world—which anyone could likely tell just from looking at the remarkably unique and cr... Read More...

Chisos Founder Will Roman on How Cowboy Boots Will Save Us All

For the closeout episode of season 11 (wtf???) of the Stitchdown Shoecast, I sat down with Will Roman, founder of Chisos Boots, a young and growing brand out of... Read More...

Bob Henderson Handmade Boots Popov Leather HERO

Exploring What “Handmade” Truly Means With Leatherworker and Bootmaker Bob Henderson

For the penultimate episode of the 11th season of the Stitchdown Shoecast, I’m quite excited indeed to be chatting with the just ridiculously talented man they call Bob Henderson. Bob is the operations manager at Popov Leather, the bustling leathergo... Read More...

Fritz Sr. and Jr. of Seidel Tanning on the Art, Science, and Challenges of Making Leather

This time Ben sits down with two, count ‘em TWO Fritz Seidels: Fritz Jr. and Fritz Sr., who every day are continuing on the tradition of the four-generation, 79... Read More...

Steve Doudaklian—Bedo's Leatherworks—Cobbler Shop—Vintage Florsheim

Shoe Care Essentials, How Many Boots is Too Many Boots, Brands We Want Back…It’s The Shoebag!!

Before he bolts for a very important trip to the bread store, Ticho is back in the leather-smelly homestead for perhaps our most comprehensive Shoebag episode e... Read More...

Bespoke Shoemaker Sebastian Tarek on West-End Outwork and Judging the World’s Greatest Shoemaking Competition

When London (by way of Australia) bespoke shoemaker Sebastian Tarek began making shoes in high school, his grandmother let him in on a little secret: he had been preceded in his journey by 18 generations of family cordwainers. After years of schoo... Read More...

Adam Goldberg—Actor Who Loves Boots Too Much—Stitchdown Shoecast

Footwear-Addled Actor Adam Goldberg on His Lifelong Quest to Remake James Dean’s Boots

Adam Goldberg has quite legitimately always been one of my favorite actors—and from Dazed & Confused, to the Fargo TV show, to A Beautiful Mind, he has alwa... Read More...