Every time we make a pair of leather shoes, we throw away quite an amount of leather as scraps or as we know it locally, “retaso”. Normally, it gets thrown away or choice pieces get bought per kilo by smaller workshops trying to save by using scraps for smaller parts of the shoe. We actually have quite a lot already from making our shoes and … Continue reading Retaso Project
The wholecut hand painting is an experiment on how we can do custom finishes that can be comparable to quality hand finished shoes from Europe. It is actually a simple process which I have learned from watching sneakerheads modify their kicks then applying local techniques of shoe paint repair to create our own brand of color finish for our wholecut shoes. Why wholecut? Well the answer is … Continue reading SHOE HAND PAINTING
