10/02/2026
PART 2
I had the opportunity to practice all of these steps during my time at Lund Universitetssjukhus , where I was guided by master orthopedic shoemaker Lennart Liedstrand—a skilled, passionate enthusiast who inspired me to continue my studies at the Hälsohögskolan in Jönköping.
There, between 1982 and 1984, I studied and trained as an orthopedic shoe technician (orthopedic shoemaker). After completing my education, I worked for a year at the LIC Centralverkstad in Sibbhult, where shoes from all over Sweden were sent in for orthopedic height adjustments due to leg length discrepancies, then returned to their owners.
It was like working in an advanced shoe factory—without customer contact.
I learned a great deal there, especially from a skilled and hard-working Icelander, Anton Johannisson. But the lack of human interaction became decisive for me.
I wanted to meet people, to talk with them, and to help them move through life—using the craft my hands performed.
”Good shoes is a long friendship ”
So I built my first independent shoemaker’s workshop on Kanikgatan in Lund.
In time, I will share more from my walk through life as a shoemaker—among other things, my years working with grandmaster modelmaker and orthopedic shoemaker , and philosopher of life Severino Zia. For seven years, together with him, his son Paulo a clicker/cutter, and a upperstitcher, we produced around 300 pairs of shoes per year, from foot casting to finished shoe.
And about the move to Östra Vallgatan, via an attic workshop in Hjärup, eventually leading to the construction of the grande finale workshop on Skolgatan.
(We are not closing.)
”Theres no business like shoebusiness ”
To be continued…