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Country: United Kingdom
Founded: 2025 2020s
Category: Footwear
Related brands: Footwear brands founded in the 2020s Footwear brands from United Kingdom

Overview

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The World's Best Sneaker

Hand Welted Collection is a collection of hand-welted sneakers launched in 2025 by Crown Northampton, a shoemaker in Northampton, England. The brand’s history dates back to Earnest Woodford & Son, founded in 1908, and its current line includes “The Ernest Wholecut.” Using materials such as British oak bark-tanned calf, each pair is handcrafted over more than 40 hours. The collection combines the traditional methods of E Woodford & Sons with Crown Northampton’s modern minimal design, and is made to order in the UK.

Concept

A true collaboration of the traditional methods of our sister company E Woodford & Sons and Crown Northampton’s modern minimal design philosophy, every stitch for a reason.

Related brands

Parent brands and sub-brands, ordered by founding year.

Related brands: 1 brands
Founded: 1908

Year Brand Category Description

1908

CROWN

Parent brand

Footwear

A craft line that uses traditional shoemaking techniques to the greatest extent.

CROWN’s current line, this is a craft collection that incorporates traditional shoemaking

CROWN’s current line, this is a craft collection that incorporates traditional shoemaking techniques more extensively than any other. While the Hand Stitch Collection centers on the hand-finished details and material choices of dress sneakers, the Hand Welted Collection is built around hand-lasting tailored to individual feet, British calf leather, and a double-welt construction. Its signature model, the Ernest Wholecut, requires more than 40 hours of work and connects CROWN’s minimalist sneaker design with the traditional shoemaking of its sister company, E Woodford & Sons. Unlike the everyday sneaker offerings of Classic and Jazz, it is the group’s most specialized line, foregrounding welt construction and the shoemaking process itself.

1908 Parent brand

CROWN

Footwear

A craft line that uses traditional shoemaking techniques to the greatest extent.

CROWN’s current line, this is a craft collection that incorporates traditional shoemaking