The Van Dahl Shoe Factory

I've completed a write up of the visit to the factory in my Artefact LO1 and LO2 posts, but I thought that I should do another small post about what I expected and what I discovered at the Van Dahl shoe factory. Before we went I thought the factory would simply be a large building with a huge sign saying "Van Dahl Shoe Factory" and I expected the interior to be like the inside of a warehouse with machinery, half made shoes and boxes as far as the eye could see, but no, I was wrong. When we entered to factory we were greeted by glass doors and a hallway, which along one side had a large crest and around it many of the older shoe making tools. Then more glass doors and we were in what seemed to be a conference room because of the long table and a white board. Along the left hand side there were lots of Van Dahl shoes and a few of  their handbags which were in three different colours, red, black and light green and were all a cube shape . After a short talk with David,( I have posted information about the talk he gave us)  who acted as a kind of tour guide  took us through some more doors and up some stairs into an office area, here we were given talks with two of the workers at the factory. I found that not everything is down to the men and women working the machines, it all starts out with research, sketching and computer technology. Then it goes down into the lower levels of the factory which is where the shoes are put together as I described at the top of this post. 


some of the shoes and handbags