This week we have a cracker of a video for you, its a factory tour of Dr Martens UK Factory in Northamptonshire. I went to visit Dr Martens back in October 2019 to see how they make their boots and shoes.
Not all the Dr Marten boots that are available come from the UK factory, only a select few of their line. If you are wondering which ones are made in the UK when you are in the shop buying a pair, they state it on the box. It says Made in England and I am pretty sure if they are in the a maroon coloured box, they will have been manufactured in the UK. Although the majority of there boots and shoes are not made in the UK, they still turn out over 100,000 pairs per year. That's a lot of that famous YELLOW stitch, which is actually trademarked by Dr Marten.
The video shows the entire process of manufacturing the boots from start to finish. It goes through cutting the leather, stitching the boot, forming the leather and adding the rubber sole. I have to put a disclaimer in here, unfortunately I did not follow a single pair through the entire process. That is due to the batch manufacture process they use and therefore following a single pair wasn't possible at the time. But the procedures are the same for all the boots.
Thanks Dr Marten for letting into your factory to film and to Steve for showing me round.
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