According to Brazilian Association of the Industries of Footwear - ABICALÇADOS, in its summary statistics 2004, is evidenced that the process of economic development of the Brazilian calçadista industry was initiated in the Rio Grande Do Sul with the arrival of the first immigrants German, in 1824. Installed in the Valley of the Bells, beyond acting in the agriculture and the creation of animals, them they had also brought I obtain the culture of the artesanato, mainly in leather articles. Initially the production if concentrated in the confection of harnesses of would mount, appearing later, in 1888, the first plant of footwear of Brazil.