Glerups

The product:

Handmade from 100% pure, natural wool. The wool is treated naturally, and the product is followed closely, all the way from the animal to your foot. The wool is washed in soft water and trimmed afterwards. The wool is made into socks and finally felted with steam. After this they are fitted with soles of pure soft calves´ skin.

The shoes may “shed”! Because of the natural treatment, you may still find traces of small vegetable fibres in the felt.



Also the shoes may “shed” in the first days of use. The coarsest fibres simply work their way out of the felt. It is only natural, and the fibres just need to be plucked off.



Wool is self-cleansing Wool is created by the skin, to work together with the skin. Before the wool fibre leaves the sheep’s skin follicle, it is covered in alkaline salts and fat (lanolin), which together form the perfect “lining”. The lanolin protects the fibre against sun, rain and wind, but it also has another function... When the sheep gets wet, the alkaline salts and the lanolin combine to form the most pure and natural soap, which washes and cleanses the wool; this is why a sheep can wear the same “clothes” for months on end without becoming dirty. And it is also the reason why you can wash wool that has come straight off the sheep without the use of soap. In the outer layers of the wool fibre, fat and protein are so tightly bound to each other that only solvents can remove the fat. The woollen fibres are therefore totally waterproof, while moisture in the air is let through. Impurities on the other hand, for example like sweat, cannot penetrate the fibres. This

is one of the reasons why woollen clothes will smell much less sweaty than, for example, acrylics. Also, static electricity is removed far more easily from wool, via the natural moisture content of the fibre.