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Exploring the wonderful world of quality footwear, how it’s made, and all the things we love about it. Check out Stitchdown.com for shoe and boot reviews, interviews with industry titans, profiles, release info, and more.
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The Stitchdown Shoecast is hosted by Stitchdown. The show has published 160 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Everything You Never Knew About Alligator Leather, With AMTAN's Christy Gilmore" (21 October 2026, 74 minutes), "A Highly Metaphysical Shoebag w/ Ticho + Stitchdown Expo 2026 Preview" (14 October 2026, 72 minutes), and "How Thiele Tanning's Jordan Proefrock Makes the World's Best Shoe Lining Leather" (7 October 2026, 86 minutes).
The Stitchdown Shoecast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 80 minutes across 160 episodes.
Booking probability for The Stitchdown Shoecast is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Stitchdown Shoecast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Stitchdown Shoecast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Stitchdown Shoecast are Footwear Manufacturing and Jewelry, Toys & Sporting Goods. The Stitchdown Shoecast has an arts audience.
Stitchdown hosts The Stitchdown Shoecast, an arts podcast with 160 episodes published.
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Episode #5
Alligator leather. It's bold. It's fancy. It's expensive . It’s also the result of, and driving force behind, a massive conservation effort—and one of the toughest crafts in tanning. That’s why we brought Christy...
Episode #4
Ticho hath returned for the Season 19 Shoebag episode, in which we answer listener questions ranging from shoe-related time travel, to the upsides and downs of the quality footwear loving community growing like crazy in...
Episode #3
Thiele Tanning has operated out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 1934. And while things rarely stay the same in tanning—Thiele has made everything from bowling shoe leather, to baseball glove leather, to some actually VERY...
Episode #2
It wasn’t always easy for two Belgian guys named Robin to build a shoe brand. Early production setbacks, finding investment, and eventually building a physical retail presence are never easy to contend with. But even...
Episode #13
There are custom bootmakers—and then there's Texas Traditions. Opened in 1977 by “The Picasso of cowboy boots” Charlie Dunn, Texas Traditions has been run by Charlie’s apprentice Lee Miller since 1986. In one of the...
Episode #8
If you know Albert Muzquiz, it’s almost definitely as Edgy Albert, his highly accurate internet alter-ego. Albert’s not just another menswearfluencer come-lately—he was also the first writer for Stitchdown.com , worked...
Episode #7
At one point, it was tough to find someone in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine that wasn't personally connected to the handsewn moccasin shoe industry. Today, few Maine shoemaking operations remain—but those twin cities on the...
Episode #6
Wolverine Worldwide is a footwear empire much bigger than just Wolverine 1000 Mile. Justin Cupps is six months into his role as President of the Work Group, which includes Merrell Work, Bates, HYTEST, CAT Footwear...
Episode #5
Last time Elizabeth Semmelhack—Director and Senior Curator of the Toronto's exceptional Bata Shoe Museum—was on the Shoecast, she ran down a (mostly) complete history of boots, overall. It was excellent. This time...
Episode #4
Michael Williams is sometimes a “marketer who hates marketing,” who has helped many of the great US manufacturing brands, up to and including Red Wing. Other times he he’s writing his often menswear focused newsletter...
Episode #3
Carmina Albaladejo heads US operations for the exquisite Spanish shoemaker with the exact same (first) name as her. In this Stitchdown Shoecast episode we discuss how six generations of family history led to the...
Episode #2
Hermann Oak has been tanning leather in St. Louis since 1881, and they pretty much still do it the same way—one way, which of course is veg-tanning. Traditionally a major player in the equestrian leather world, Hermann...
Episode #1
Back in 2021, I got a great email from a young bootmaker named Nathan Florsheim who wanted to chat. Boy am I glad I took that call. About a year later I had Nathan—great great great grandson of Milton Florsheim, yes...
Episode #7
This week on the Shoecast we’re bringing back Rory Fortune, founder of Los Angeles-based Goods & Services, which continues to be one of the most interesting footwear operations out there. We had Rory on back in 2024...
Episode #6
How do we keep craft alive in an over-technological society? Is it via the individual maker? Or more of a collective workshop approach? Houston-based bespoke cowboy bootmaker Zephan Parker has plenty of thoughts on all...
Episode #5
My chat this week is with Brooklyn -based bespoke shoemaker, educator, and artist Anne Marika Verploegh Chassé, aka STIEFELwerk . Two decades ago, Marika came at shoemaking from a fine arts background, which shouldn’t...
Episode #4
It's Shoebag time for Shoecast season 17. Which means it's time for a serious dose of Ticho, who joins me to unpack all the biggest listener questions. Why are we both suddenly wearing the same barefoot-style shoes...
Episode #3
When I met Emily Boksenbaum at our Maker’s Day 2025 conference in Chicago , I knew I had to get her on the Shoecast. Emily’s always made stuff. First it was art growing up, which led to a focus on fiber material studies...
Episode #2
Justin FitzPatrick aka the Shoe Snob on fiery times in the comments section, what a dress shoe customer even looks like in 2026, button boots (obviously), and why it’s never been harder to start a shoe brand than right...
Episode #1
In November 2025, we did a thing. Stitchdown’s Boot Camp 2025 Chicago was a quality footwear mega-expo, a materials trade show, a crossroads of the industry we love, and one big ol’ multi-day party with my favorite...
Recent guests on The Stitchdown Shoecast. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
Assistant Superintendent of Personnel, National Bonsai & Penjing Museum
Assistant Professor & Extension Turfgrass Pathologist, Landscapedesignbylee.com
Chief Innovation Officer, J. Fitzpatrick Footwear
president and CEO, Alliant International University
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