Cobbler Union

Handcrafted. Artisanal. High quality. People can say what they want, but they’re all just words until you see it with your eyes. They’re just words until you’ve spent weeks with at least 25 different people who are masters at their craft. Working together in the pursuit of building something beautiful. These hands leave an indelible mark of experience and focus on a pair. They’re signs of one’s commitment to true craftsmanship. Over 70 components and more than 200 unique operations for one pair are just numbers until you’ve seen the leather, rubber, and metal strewn across the work table and poured over from sunrise to sunset, day after day. Until you’ve seen a hide and thread transform into something more than the sum of their parts, one step at a time. We can talk about what is apparent, that is to say the surface details; or we can talk about what is real. See what we mean when we say craftsmanship, when we say quality, and know they’re more than simply words.