Manufacturers seek many of the same objectives, but the main goal is typically to produce the best products possible at the lowest costs. Individual sectors within the manufacturing industry seek ...

(NNPA Newswire) – The craft of shoemaking was at one time difficult and manual work. But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, cobblers and cordwainers cut, sewed, and tacked shoes with ...

There are some new kicks in town, and they're giving people who love quality leather sneakers a reason to kick up their heels. Opie Way, a new footwear micro-manufacturing company, is geared up to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The collection documents the ...

Dozens of workers at a shoe factory in southern China’s Dongguan city glue, sew and buff foam slippers and canvas shoes. They punch every hole and lace every shoe by hand. “Every lacing is [done] ...

For Douglas Clark, the darkest part of working for Nike in the 1980s was watching American shoe manufacturing "evaporate" in the Northeast in a mass exodus to Asia in pursuit of cheaper labor. "As a ...