Three Generations. One Standard.
In 1948, a young immigrant opened a shoe store in central Auckland. He didn't have a brand strategy or a marketing plan. He had a rule: if you wouldn't resole it, don't sell it.
Three generations later, Field & Foundry exists because that rule stopped being followed — by almost everyone. The boots we grew up with, the ones that got better every year you wore them, started disappearing from shelves. Replaced by glued soles, corrected grain, and planned obsolescence dressed up as fashion.
We didn't start Field & Foundry to disrupt anything. We started it because the boots we grew up with stopped being made.
The Goodyear Welt
Every pair we make is Goodyear-welted — a 150-year-old construction method that stitches the upper, insole, and outsole together through a leather welt strip. It takes over 200 hand operations. It's slower. It's more expensive. And it's the reason a boot can be resoled instead of replaced.
The leather is full-grain — uncoated, uncorrected. It doesn't hide behind dye or plastic film. The insole is leather-padded with cork filling that moulds to your foot over time. The hardware is antique brass. The stitching follows the Puritan triple-stitch detail.
None of this is decorative. Every decision is structural.
Your Pair
Each boot carries a blind-embossed maker's mark and its own service number stamped into the leather. Your pair is serialised, registered to you, and built to come back — not for a warranty claim, but for a resole.
We put towards your first resole. Not because we expect our boots to wear out, but because we expect you to wear them enough to need new soles. That's the whole point.
Built in New Zealand. Made the Hard Way.
Field & Foundry is based in Auckland, New Zealand. We design here, source the finest materials we can find, and work with specialist makers who still know how to build a boot that lasts.
We're not chasing scale. We're chasing the standard that started in a shoe store in 1948 — and making sure it doesn't disappear.