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the shoemaker

Plenty of people make their own clothes – but what if you could make your own footwear from scratch? Shoemaking is a career as old as time, but in recent decades, it’s been a rapidly disappearing trade. New Zealander Lou Clifton is changing that, one shoe at a time.

Lou runs Shoe School, which does exactly what it says

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