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 ... Read More...
Engineers are the enthusiast's boot. Alien to most "regular" people (including, at one point, our very founder), they exemplify everything that's exciting and f... Read More...
It was finally just time, I suppose.
After nearly seven years of extensively covering the excellent bootmaker Nicks Boots—who's been making some of the world... Read More...
Pacific Northwest bootmaking is in many ways the antithesis of "minimalist" or "barefoot" footwear. PNW workboot makers love tons of leather, crazy arch support... Read More...
We've been at the Stitchdown Shoecast—our podcast, if you couldn't tell from the clever name—for almost five years now. In that time, there have been requests f... Read More...
There’s an old story over at Nicks Boots that goes like this:
A longtime customer named Robert walked into Nicks’ Spokane workshop one day, in need of some b... Read More...
There’s a new Nicks Boots engineer in town.
The latest pattern to hit the Nicks catalog, the Pullman engineer boot is named after the city of Pullman, Washingt... Read More...
For the past three years, CEO Shuyler Mowe has lacing up his now decade-old Builder Pros to helm Nicks Handmade Boots, shepherding the Spokane maker from a pure... Read More...
For a while there, it was pretty fun to dominate the podcasting scene so hard that the Shoecast rose to no. 43 on the Swedish fashion podcast charts (actually t... Read More...
The inaugural Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome was, well, pretty huge.
502 pairs and contestants with an an estimated 25 million steps taken in them. Made by ex... Read More...
