In today's 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 remove fashionable, tight-fitting, and sometimes tight “official” street shoes from tired legs and put on slippers that are so soft, comfortable, comfortable, light that your legs have been waiting all day. Today, stores sell a large number of shoes for the home. But the most useful for your health are felt slippers made of felted natural sheep, dog or camel wool.
The healing properties of felt
In winter, these slippers will warm from the cold, and in summer it 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 heat and have the quality of thermal underwear, and slippers made of this material relieve rheumatic pains in the legs, help those who sweat their legs and sore bones.
It is useful to wear such shoes to everyone - both children, adults and the elderly. It has a micromassage effect - 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 a healing effect, slippers should be worn on bare feet.
The natural properties of sheep, dog and camel wool, from which felt is made, allow the use of these materials in the manufacture of clothing, shoes, and household items.
Felting is the oldest way to make clothes and shoes. Since ancient times, many mountain residents value the healing properties of natural felt and wear national clothing made of this material all their lives. The nomadic peoples of Eurasia live in yurts that are made of felt. During the Great Patriotic War, felt shoes saved the feet of many of our soldiers and officers from frostbite. But in the last century, felt was considered unfashionable and obsolete, and only old grandmothers wore products from it.
Such a fashionable felt
The current "natural" fashion, in the face of the prevalence of ubiquitous synthetics, in the search for environmentally friendly alternatives turned its eyes to the forgotten felt, given its medicinal properties. Nowadays, felt slippers, felt boots, chuni, rags and much more are made using new technology in factories, and not in a makeshift way. The look of the products is very attractive and modern. But most of all valued are handmade products, designer items made without the use of sewing machines and machine tools.
Felt slippers made in the form of forest animals and pets, decorated with felt flowers, berries, painted with paints, embroidered with glass beads and without decorations are presented in a wide assortment in shops and markets. But the main thing in this product is felt. If it is made of natural wool, and the paints used to make jewelry are made of natural materials, then you will get real pleasure from such shoes. But if synthetics and chemistry were added in their manufacture, albeit in small doses, then you won’t get one hundred percent comfort from this thing.
Felt for babies
Well, for toddlers, children with their delicate skin, slippers and boots - it's just a godsend. They should be worn daily so that the children are not sick, their legs are dry, warm and feel relaxed and comfortable when moving. Children with love put on slippers similar to our furry friends. Now in winter, even small pet dogs are happy to wear shoes made of felted material.
So different slippers
An alternative to home felt shoes can be felt slippers. The top of them may be from wool, cotton, satin, knit, silk and synthetic fabric. These slippers can be made with your own hands. For example, they will be very cozy and beautiful if you embroider the top with a cross or satin stitch, embroider with beads or ribbons. Knitted slippers on felt sole with a hook or knitting needles can be created independently. The advantage of such slippers is that they will be unique and one of a kind, and will also cost you much cheaper than those bought in a store.
Slippers on felt soles can be useful in homes where the floor is made of delicate parquet boards. These flip flops are better to have with a margin for many guests, they are compactly packed and take up little space. Slippers on the felt are very effective for use in the sauna - the felt outsole protects the sole of the feet from burns. By the way, they are very well washed, and when dried correctly, 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. The elderly, our beloved grandmothers, especially like slippers that look like short felt boots for the winter.
From the time of its appearance (from the 16th century) to the present, slippers have come a long way as a type of shoe . But so far no more comfortable shoes have been invented for the house, symbolizing coziness and comfort.