Clogs arrived in Britain as early as the 1300s, but unlike the all-wooden Dutch versions, they consisted of wooden soles and leather uppers, explains Jeremy Atkinson, England's last traditional ...

Life; Get out your wooden clogs, Holland recruiting Dutch Dancers for 90th anniversary . Published: ; Dec. 10, 2024, 7:00 a.m.

For 90 years Holland has shared a slice of the Netherlands through the handcrafted fabrics, carefully layered accessories and carved wooden clogs that make Dutch Dancing unique.

Holland’s De Klomp Wooden Show and Delftware Factory is one of the United States’ only Dutch clog producers, as well as the only complete producer of Delftware pottery in North America.

De Klomp Wooden Shoe and Delftware Factory near Holland showcases wooden-shoe hand carvers who, with the help of a machine that is 125 to 150 years old, produce the wooden "clogs" for footwear ...

There are only 10 clog makers left in the Netherlands hand-carving wooden shoes. But many are near retirement. We visited one of the oldest standing.

Once reserved for Dutch farmers in the early 1300s, clogs quickly shook off their practical connotations. Fast forward to the 1970s – the era of disco dancing – and the wooden heels became the ...

(The traditional Dutch clog is a rarer and more eccentric thing on the street.) In Sweden, clogs are a way of life, “especially in the summer when people spend time in their summer houses”, ...

This marks the largest group in a decade Dutch Dance Director Jenn Ryckbost said. With so many dancers, they’re moving the park performances to 8th Street on Thursday, May 8 and Friday, May 9.