It's usually the first thing people notice. Before the softness, before the sheepskin — the narrow band of pattern running around the opening, in natural tones of blush, ochre and deep burgundy.
It's the reason these have that Scandinavian feeling people are drawn to — warmth, authenticity, just the right amount of detail. And it's why they don't look like the mass produced ones on the high street.
The pattern is borrowed from Norwegian traditional dress — the woven ribbons and trims that have adorned their clothing for centuries.
Most brands making a slipper like this would print a version of that pattern. A copy — quicker, cheaper, usually made in China. We've never wanted to. There's a quiet pleasure in doing it the real way.
So ours are woven for us in Norway, by a small family who've made trims for traditional dress for generations. Pure wool embroidered onto a cotton tape, on machines older than any of us.
Real wool rather than polyester, a pattern woven through rather than printed on top. Soft against the skin, and better in five years than in its first.
From Norway, the trims travel to Poland, to the family who make our sheepskin slippers. Each band is stitched on by eye — to make our Freya, Agnes and Viola slippers — two crafts, two countries, meeting in something small enough to wear around the house and good enough to last years.
It's a long way to go for a detail most people never think to ask about. That's rather the point.
Our handcrafted slippers — Freya, our sheepskin mule, alongside Agnes hard soled sheepskin boots and Viola soft soled sheepskin boots — are all back in stock now, in every size.
Ayshea x
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