Etiket: Shoemaker
Shoemaker stops after twelve generations: "I’m not going to say girls can’t do that, but they didn’t feel like it.”
Shoemaker Matyn in Roeselare stops after no less than 400 years. Twelve successive generations passed on the shoe cloths from father to son, but Eddy is the very last. He…
A modern shoemaker also has drinks in the house | 1Limburg
The Netherlands still has about five hundred shoemakers. Frits Pellemans in Roermond is one of them, but possibly the best in the country. Pellemans, together with two competitors, is a…
Is shoemaker Hans the best in the Netherlands? “I’m third anyway”
Hans Meester (64) from Alkmaar is proud that he has been nominated for best shoemaker in the Netherlands. “Customers can sign you up, and so many customers voted for me…
Shoemaker Jan cannot find a successor: ‘It is painful that it stops with me’
Jan van der Velden is a shoemaker in Kaatsheuvel. Two more years and then he will retire, but no one wants to take over the business. The shoemaker’s craft is…