Daphne Board

Specializing in handcrafting shoes and boots that are both beautiful and appropriate for orthopedic needs, Daphne learned from traditional shoemakers in Nova Scotia and apprenticed to an orthopedist to understand the science behind supportive footwear. Now a certified pedorthist with special training to develop footwear with orthotics and modifications, Daphne follows in a long line of cordwainers, a European guild craft hundreds of years old and named from the French term for shoemaker, “cordonnier.” Since 2001, she has established a successful business in custom shoe-making in Holyoke, Massachusetts.