Friends! I want to tell you about the most comfortable, most natural, about my most favorite shoes. Russian Valenki! (felt boots)
Felt boots mean that they were made by felting sheep wool. Not all wool is suitable for felting, only if you use clean water, without adding any chemicals, even laundry soap. Only under this condition, the boots are soft, the legs in them comfortable and at ease. In mass production, copper sulfate is usually used to speed up the stalling of wool, which, according to old men, who understand a lot about this business, hurt their feet. Boots become hard and cold. It makes no sense to roll at home such a substitute - it is easier to buy it in the store.
Hand-made valenki are the most comfortable shoes in the world. Masters also do hand embroidery on valenki.
It is a very warm shoe. Even at minus 30, you feel comfortable.
These shoes were very popular in the villages and in the countryside.
But nowadays it is also becoming more and more popular in big cities. Mothers with children make choices in favor of felt boots because modern shoes do not withstand long walks in the cold. In this case, Valenki is the most comfortable and warm option.
@georgii-tarhanov Wow…snug shoes… really something different kind of shoes… something to be cuddled up at home (when temp cupis going minus ) …with a hot cup of coffee☕
@Dinakar1 These shoes for open snowy streets, where it is very cold and ordinary shoes does not help. In this shoe, you will feel very warm even in minus 30 degrees by Celsius
The average cost for ordinary Valenki about 20 US dollars
But with hand made embroidery it would be 100 150 US dollar
Thank you for tagging me. Its a new piece of information.
@georgii-tarhanov really a very good post. Beautifully embroidered shoes which can be comfortable even at minus 30 degrees is something a rare product which we people can come across.
@fafaguru If you want to buy Valenki so that you are warm and comfortable to walk - you buy Valenki for $ 20. And if you want beautiful and fashionable Valenki with hand embroidery, the master will take 5 times more money for them because it is quite a long manual labor (several days). Yes, I agree with you that $ 150 is expensive! But on the other hand, in the shops of fashionable western brands, shoes made on a machine stand for 350 and even 500 dollars!
