The Dutch are well-known for their wooden shoes, but finding clogs from the Middle Ages—especially in well-preserved condition—is incredibly rare. Recently, however, archaeologists uncovered such a ...
Learn more I've been wearing clogs since I was just a little kid, slipping my feet into my Swedish grandma's wooden clogs. I always liked the way they looked, and they reminded me of going over to ...
The clog, a European size 36, is estimated to have been made at the end of the 15th or early in the 16th century. It is the first ever found in the Netherlands made of birch wood, and one of only ...
An curved arrow pointing right. There are only 10 clog makers left in the Netherlands hand-carving wooden shoes. And there are even fewer clog painters. The craftspeople who are left are near ...