#shoemakers — Public Fediverse posts
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"'New Zealand used to have shoe factories. They were all over the country, until they weren’t. Now, New Zealand-made shoes feels like a distant memory, like carless days, a top-bracket tax rate of 66% and The Video Dispatch. We went from having 95% of our footwear made locally in the late 1980s to only 5% by 2008. These days it’s certainly even less than that."
#Aotearoa #NZHistory #Shoes #Shoemakers #Footwear #MadeInNZ
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-05-2026/whos-still-making-footwear-in-aotearoa
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I am participating in an art project and art exhibit with 400+ local #artists to help local #shoemakers who lost their businesses. We are tasked to transform old shoe lasts into #artworks. Here's one that I finished today, inspired by a recent article I read about the collapse of #insects.
#biodiversity #art #mixedMedia #climateChange #sustainability #ArtForACause #MastodonArt #MastoArt #insect #survival