Three Generations, One Workshop

In 1950, in a small workshop in Gaziantep, a shoemaker began cutting leather by hand. Seventy-five years later, his family still works the same craft, in the same city, at the same benches — and every pair sold on this site is made there.

This journal is where we'll write from that workshop. Not marketing copy — workshop notes. What we're cutting this week. Why a sole is leather and not rubber. What a copper rivet is doing under your foot. How a shoe should actually fit when it's shaped like a foot.

What you'll find here

Craft. How a pair comes together: the cutting, the stitching, the small decisions that separate handmade from factory-made. If you've read Our Process, this is where that story continues in detail.

Materials. Leather is a living material — it ages, adapts, and tells on every shortcut. We'll write about what we use, what we refuse to use, and how to care for what you own.

Barefoot, honestly. Zero-drop, wide toe boxes, ground feel, and the copper rivet at the K1 point — explained by the people who build it, without health claims we can't stand behind.

New posts will be occasional rather than scheduled — a workshop writes when there's something worth saying.

Welcome to the atelier.

— Ede Shoes, Gaziantep