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10 Best Shoemaking Blogs

Are you interested in learning more about various stages of the shoemaking process? Perhaps you’d like to see inside bespoke shoe factories?  If you want to start your own shoe brand and learn more about how shoes are made and what materials, equipment, and tools […]

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How Rubber Shoe Soles are Made

We can thank Charles Goodyear for his perseverance. In 1844, after years of experimentation, Charles Goodyear finally invented the process of heating natural rubber mixed with sulfur to create shoe rubber.He called it vulcanization, and this is still how we make shoe rubber today. With […]

How Adidas Makes Shoes

How Adidas Makes Shoes

Great video by Adidas showing how the Hyper Boost is made. What is the process used to make Adidas Shoes? Most Adidas shoes are made by cold cement construction. Cold cement is the modern updated style of shoe construction. It is the opposite of the […]

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How to Make Shoes : The Basics

How to Make Shoes If you want to learn how to make shoes you have come to the right place!  I’m going to explain the modern, most common ways that shoes are made. This is how the big brands like Nike™, Adidas™, and even Walmart […]

How Adidas Makes Shoes

What does it really take to make a sneaker?

Making A Sneaker The sneaker is a staple of the modern world.  Children and adults around the world have closets full of them. How do sneakers get made and who makes them? What does it take to make a sneaker? It takes an army of […]

What is a Shoe Pattern

How a New Shoe is Made: Shoe Development Process

The Shoe Development Process Once the design concept has been selected and refined, it is time to turn the drawings into a new sneaker.  This is when the footwear developer joins the designer to move the project forward. The developer is an experienced technician that […]

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Update: Over 10,000 Readers in over 60 Countries!  

Read by over 2500 3000 5000   10,000 people in 60 countries! We want to take a minute to thank the 900,000 1,000,000 2,450,000 people around the globe that have visited the SneakerFactory.net website in the past two years. We also want to extend a special thank you to […]