Such miraculous felt slippers

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

In the modern world, people cannot do without shoes. It is needed both for work, walks, and for home.

Returning from work after a hard day, it's nice to take off fashionable, close-fitting, and sometimes tight "official" street shoes from tired feet and put on slippers, so soft, cozy, comfortable, light, which have been waiting for your feet all day. Today, stores sell a large number of shoes for the home. But the most beneficial for he alth are felt slippers made from felted natural sheep, dog or camel wool.

Healing properties of felt

In winter, these slippers will warm you from the cold, and in summer they will not be hot. Natural fat (lanolin), which is found in animal hair, has a beneficial effect on human muscles and joints. Felt products create dry warmth and have the quality of thermal underwear, and slippers made from this material relieve rheumatic pains in the legs, help those who have sweaty feet and aching bones.

Such shoes are useful for everyone to wear - children, adults, and the elderly. It has a micro-massage effect -wool hairs gently affect the skin of the legs and normalize blood circulation. Felt slippers made of camel hair repel dust, which is especially useful for people with asthma. To get the healing effect of slippers, you need to wear them barefoot.

The natural properties of sheep, dog and camel wool, from which felt is made, allow these materials to be used in the manufacture of clothes, shoes, household items.

Felting is the most ancient way of making clothes and shoes. Since ancient times, many mountain dwellers have valued the healing properties of natural felt and have been wearing national clothes made from this material all their lives. The nomadic peoples of Eurasia live in yurts made from felt. During the Great Patriotic War, felt shoes saved many of our soldiers and officers' feet from frostbite. But in the last century, felt was considered unfashionable and outdated, and only old grandmothers wore products from it.

Such a trendy felt

The current "natural" fashion, in the conditions of the dominance of the ubiquitous synthetics, in search of environmentally friendly alternatives, turned its eyes towards the forgotten felt, given its healing properties. At present, felt slippers, felt boots, chuni, boots and much more are made using the new technology in factories, and not in a handicraft way. The look of the products is very attractive and modern. But most of all, handmade products, designer items made without the use of sewing machines and machines are valued.

In shops and markets in a wide rangeFelt slippers are presented, made in the form of forest animals and domestic animals, decorated with felt flowers, berries, painted with paints, embroidered with glass beads and without decorations. But the main thing in this product is felt. If it is made of natural wool, and the dyes used to make jewelry are from natural materials, then you will get real pleasure from such shoes. But if synthetics, chemistry, albeit in small doses, were added during their manufacture, then you will not get one hundred percent comfort from this thing.

Felt for babies

Well, for babies, children with their delicate skin, slippers and felt boots are just a godsend. They must be worn daily so that the children do not get sick, their legs are dry, warm and feel relaxed and comfortable when moving. Kids lovingly put on slippers that look like our furry friends. Now in winter, even small pet dogs are happy to wear felted shoes.

Such different slippers

An alternative to home shoes made of felt can be slippers with felt soles. The top of them can be made of woolen, cotton, satin, knitted, silk and synthetic fabric. These slippers can be made by hand. For example, they will turn out very cozy and beautiful if the top is embroidered with a cross or stitch, embroidered with beads or ribbons. You can create knitted slippers with felt soles using a hook or knitting needles yourself. The advantage of such slippers is that they will be unique and one of a kind, and will also cost you much less than bought in a store.

Felt-soled flip-flops can be useful in homes where the floor is made of delicate hardwood flooring. It is better to have such flip flops with a margin for many guests, they are compactly packed and take up little space. Felt slippers are very effective for use in the sauna - the felt sole protects the soles of the feet from burns. By the way, they wash very well, and after drying properly, they can be worn again.

Slippers for the whole family

If you want to please your household and cheer them up, give them cozy, soft slippers. Every day, putting them on their feet, they will be grateful to you. Elderly people, our beloved grandmothers, especially like slippers for winter, similar to short boots.

From the time of its appearance (from the 16th century) to the present, slippers have come a long way as a type of footwear. But still no more comfortable shoes for home, symbolizing coziness and comfort, have been invented.