If you’ve been to the annual history festival at McGowan’s farm near Mankato in October, chances are you’ve seen the shoemaker, leather worker and historical reenactor Pegeen Rozeske giving ...
NAIROBI: About 7,000 leather-shoe craftsmen at Nairobi’s informal Kariokor Market will be provided machinery to automate their operations. This is as the State seeks to cut reliance on imports and ...
Shoe manufacturing was revolutionized by the lasting machine, which was patented on March 20, 1883 by inventor Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Matzeliger was born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a Dutch ...
Eleven years ago, when the once-giant hides processor, the Leather Industries of Kenya, shut down operations at its Thika-based plant, Karim Nanji and a small clique of the then-management staff saw ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. NAIROBI: About 7,000 leather-shoe craftsmen at Nairobi’s informal Kariokor Market will ...