Well, of course everyone has already got all their presents wrapped and ready… but if you are still secretly in a panic and have everything to buy and not much time, we have lots of lovely accessories in stock which would make perfect presents!
Call or email for available colours in the style of your choice and we can post out accessories or Green Shoes Gift Vouchers right up to Friday 21st December by Special Next Day Delivery and they will arrive in time for christmas.

New Style

Our lovely 2-Leaf purse is a new style not yet on the website but in stock now!
Vintage style purse made from gorgeous colourful leather that looks lovelier the longer you use it.
Fastens with 2 brass poppers, generously sized to fit in credit cards and notes in one compartment, coins in the other (17cm x 10cm).
Please call/email for available colours (shown here in Rose, Pumpkin, Emerald, Mustard and Olive)
£17 plus £2 postage.

You are warmly invited to the Green Shoes
OPEN WORKSHOP DAY 10am – 6pm on
SATURDAY 1st DECEMBER

We are celebrating our first year in the new workshop at Dart Mills, so why not join us for a mince pie & glass of wine
and have a look around! Our friendly team of shoemakers will answer any questions about how we make the shoes, and
show you the tools & lovely materials we use.

• Gorgeous new styles of handbags, belts, boots and jewellery to try on!
• New Eco-Tan range, made from organically tanned leather
• Vegan footwear and accessories made to order
• Gifts for sale from £5, & Gift Vouchers are available if you want to treat someone special to a pair of Green Shoes!
• All orders received on the day are guaranteed to be ready for Christmas

If you want to visit us another time, our usual opening hours are
Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5pm
We can help you choose the perfect style, colour and fit from our wide choice of handmade ethical footwear.
Hope to see you soon!
Very best wishes from
The Green Shoes Team

We have been making some pretty delicious looking little shoes
lately, these look particularly lovely!

Clockwise from top left:
Primrose bar sandals in Pink leather,
in Chocolate with a Pistachio daisy on the strap,
again in Sand with a White daisy, then a
Buttercup T-Bar in Rose with White Star Applique.
(All shoes from £43)

What a strange summer its been! There aren’t many years when we are making mostly boots all summer long, luckily a lovely pair of long boots with a summer dress is a great look and alot of folks felt their new shoes were the perfect antidote to grey skies!
The photoshoot at Buckfastleigh Steam Railway was such fun! The guys were really helpful and didn’t mind us prancing around on the platform, taking photos and wandering around their machine yards. Its a tremendous place! They take such care of the station and engines, and the people who work there are really skilled - it was so interesting to see a workshop thats on a very different scale to our own, with the massive trains being stripped down and rebuilt in a huge shed crammed with tools. We would highly recommend a visit and a journey by steam- some of our customers a few weeks ago came all the way from Plymouth to Totnes by train, then Totnes to Buckfastleigh by steam train, then walked to our workshop from the station! Apart from those who walk or cycle to see us, I think that’s one of the most environmentally friendly visits we have had if avoiding car travel….

In between us all taking our annual leave here and there, making lots of shoes and having planning meetings (thinking of re-organising the workshop layout to give us more stock space and shift the office around a bit so its cosier this autumn and winter!) we have been working on some more new designs following the launch of the Eco-Tan Accessories and footwear.
We have had some great feedback about the new bags on the website, and have turned our attention to some new belts and boots that we have been mulling over for a while. We are just doing our first test pieces - its a pretty long process, so presently we are at the ‘like that lots but will it stay on your foot?’ stage!- where things get translated from sketches and reworked pattern pieces into basic forms we can try on and play around with.

Time has flown by this month and we have been very busy! There’s been a buzz of excitement around the workshop getting the new Eco-Tan Accessories range together, and we did a really fun photoshoot this week (once the black clouds and torrential rain finally lifted!) so are looking forwards to putting the new pictures on the site.
We were delighted to see a picture of Dr Alice Roberts, an inspiring scientist and presenter of ‘Don’t Die Young’ on BBC2, looking fantastic in a pair of Iris Knee-high boots in the Independent. We all read the article at coffee time, and we were struck by her passion for re-energising a traditional way of explaining and exploring science in a way that people can relate to.
We feel similarly about making things - shoes or anything else - in that it shouldn’t be a distant and separate component of peoples lives, but relevant, integrated, and lively. Where something comes from and how it is made is important to us, and hope that we can show this through what we do!
Green Shoes founder Alison Hastie has recently been elected a fellow of the RSA(Royal Society for the enouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce), and we feel it is wonderful that her incredible commitment to working in a creative and visionary way over the last 25 years has been recognised.
When Alison started Green Shoes, the importance of carrying traditional skill forwards in a way that values the individual maker within design and manufacturing was against the tide of mass production and factory dominance.Our current awareness of the social and environmental impact of this comes out of the continued commitment of people who have placed these ideals at the centre of their lives and communicated it to others.

Hello and welcome to our news pages! Here we will be able to share what’s going on at the workshop, ideas we are working on, news of sales or special offers and much more!
This year has seen some really exciting developments at Green Shoes, starting in January with the move to Dart Mills after being based in Totnes. Our new workshop by the River Dart feels really homely - after a chilly start (before the heating was up and running!) when we were wearing layers of jumpers topped with our shoemaker’s aprons, we are now really settled in and enjoying this lovely sunny space.
Since moving, we have been working on some new accessory designs in Eco-tan leather. We love this leather! It is inspiring to work with such a gorgeous new material, that not only feels and looks wonderful but that is organically tanned with sustainable pure plant extracts. We are really happy with the samples of the new bags that are coming out of all the discussions and test runs (yes, we are very lucky and get to wear our prototypes out and about, we have to make sure they look great and work well in coping with the jumble of things we cram into them!). We have settled on 4 new bag designs, including one for men, and a couple of belts, all available online in July.
Another addition to the site is the Archive Sale page, where we will now be able to offer sale items online. It will be updated throughout the year so it’s really worth checking in every now and again as there may be the perfect pair of shoes just waiting for you!