Today we will tell you how boots are made in the city of Kalyazin Tver region. At the end there is a wonderful video about production.

Filed shoes (boots) in the Kalyazinsky district are made for 200 years. After the revolution, the handicraft product is replaced by industrial - on the basis Artel is organized by the factory "Red October". In 2004, it unites on the other, Moscow, the Bitz factory. So the production that currently exists is appear.

1. Make felt boots from sheep wool. True, the Yaroslavl Romanovskaya sheep for industrial production is not suitable. Therefore, white wool is brought from Mongolia, gray - from the Caucasus and Central Asia

2. At first, wool prepare for production. It is driven through a special apparatus, rushes and folds in a large container

4. Charging unit. Behind manually put wool, which is calculated by spiny rollers and wounds in front of special coils

7. After combing wool, the basis of the future boat, which passes the wrapper on these machines with steam

10. You can warm up on the machines)

11. And this is a dog. In fact, in the background, one of the factory workers is resting during a lunch break, but she refused to be photographed

12. After wrecking the blank manually, the boot head is sock, heel and sole. Then fluffy wool gets off steam again

13. Now the workpiece must be collected in the party and send to the katal machine. Riding, compressing, press - wool becomes inseparable

14. Then the shape is stretched and attached to the view of the flange. Only it is as long as 2 times the size of the size that will result in the end

16. The blanks throw a wooden drum into a water filled with water, where the original roll of wool or felting occurs. That is why the boots are called boots!

18. And then the blanks are stretched again by car, which in the factory is called "crocodile". Employees just hit the synchronous action

20. Yes, by the way! Now we have a GO PRO camera, she removed for you a great video about the production of boots and wants to show it at the end of the post

21. This "baby" with its own attachments can be installed on the tripods using the Tripod adapter. And at the end we will see the entire factory process shot by a wide-angle lens of 170 degrees!

22. Funny video is already waiting, and our felt boots are going on. Now they need to moisten, give the shape and size on special pads. And in the oven, dry

26. Pressing the final form by cutting the pad

27. Determination of the intermediate size of the boots

29. After giving shape and size, the pad is no longer needed, they are stored before the new party

31. Now there is a little. Need to break excess wool

The production of boots remains unchanged for several hundred years. The raw material serves natural wool, which in the manufacturing process is very seated, resulting in the best winter shoes for frosty and dry winter.

What is Valenki

Valenki is a kind of winter shoes made of tightly shot-powered natural wool. In the most severe frost, they maintain heat and save their feet from frostbite, and the whole organism - from supercooling even in the conditions of the Far North. The material for shoes is a sheep wool, which is fed (riding). Wool processing technology passes the stage of simultaneous sparking and shrinkage in the dense material from which the product form. The name of the shoe, so common in the past, happened from the name of the production process - felting.

Felt boots are made in a variety of species. Classic models are made of tightly shot down thick wools with a high height. They are comfortable, lungs, durable. Wearing them in the cold season with dry weather. In the autumn period or in slushful winters on the boots, rubber galoshes are put on. Natural wool is quite quickly progressed, so the sole before the skin was often laid. In urban conditions, the boots were little in demand, but they are still relevant on the expanses of the province.

Until recently, traditional shoes did not interest most of the population, woven woven only on young children. Now began the return of fashion to natural materials and traditional crafts, which is associated with new features, designer finds.

History of Valenok.

There were times when the boots were considered a symbol of prosperity and greater wealth, and the shoe sellers have been taxable. The production of boots was a secret for most mortals, and masters-valillars kept their secrets in secret, preferring them to transfer them only to family members. It is assumed that the prototype of the boots were pyma, nomad shoes.

It is believed that the felted shoes appeared at the end of the 18th century in the town of Myshkin, Yaroslavl province. The fashion on the boots in the court entered Peter I, he put them after the bath or wore in the winter. Tsarina Catherine Great with the help of the boots treated the disease of the feet, and Elizabeth would allow his decree to carry this shoes to court ladies complete with lush dresses. Stormy innovations in Russia were periodic, some of them provoked Peter I, distinguished by latitude of views and practicality, with its board, boots became accessible to all segments of the population.

The production of felted shoes on an industrial scale began in the 19th century. Fans of Valenok were Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev. In the war years, Valenki entered the winter outfit for soldiers and senior officers. Today, the mandatory equipment of traditional shoes remained relevant for special divisions of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The production of boots today is experiencing Renaissance, they become favorite objects for the application of forces and fantasies from the designers, which finds a response from the buyer. Decorated with skillful embroidery, ribbons, natural fur Fur, as in antiquity, create comfortable conditions for their owner, fulfilling the main purpose - the preservation of heat in the frost.

Types of wool

For the manufacture of the best felt boots in Russia, sheep wool was most often used, but a goat, dog, rabbit, was also going to move. Sheep wool valued for high wear and medicinal quality. Chesching wool, compacted (fused) and received durable further manipulations on the formation were made manually.

The final color of the product depended on the raw material, the white was considered the most luxurious, on their production was wool of Mongolian fine sheep, gray felt boots were obtained from sheep wool, brought from Central Asia or the Caucasus. Sometimes the shoes were made from which in terms of qualities is not inferior to the analogues, but the boots from it are obtained more fluffy and not so easy.

Views of Valenok.

Modern models are made of rabbit, sheep, goat wool, there are products from mohair and felt. Films are divided into several species, depending on the materials and models used:

• Classic felt boots made of 100% wool made by the manufacture of material.
• Shoes on the sole.
• Classic boots with welded rubber sole.
• Flares with fur. Such models are made of fine felt, are insulated by several layers of batting, the inner part is separated by a bike lining. Rubber sole. This is a more modern option that the city inhabitants failed to taste, you can wear any weather.

Technological process

One of the best shoe options for winter cold boots remain. Production (Russia) is based on old principles that have not changed from the 19th century. The technology schematically looks like:

• The wool, obtained in rolls, is bursting into small fibers and dried, for this it is sent to a cheALly car. The material used is not made, which is important to comply with technology.
• The dried raw materials goes to the processing in a wool machine, where the material gets a single structure. After that, products are lined in size. At this stage, the boots are four times more than it should be.
• Cardic parts are sent to the katal machine, where they are subjected to water vapor and mechanical shrinkage, after which they cope in hot water. At this stage, a seal occurs, wool gives shrinkage to 80% of the initial workpiece. Then they put on a block, stretching and giving the final shape, after which they dried.
• Dried shoes are additionally protected by birch beaks to give a greater density.
• In the finishing workshop in classical models, the top of the top is cut off to obtain a level edge. But modernity made its own adjustments, and now the boots are embroidered with threads, beads, rhinestones. A frequent finish was the use of artistic drawing techniques with felt, adding natural fur and other designer finds.

Equipment

Today, many have opened small companies where boots are manufactured. Production (Russia) and used to be divided into industrial and handicraft. Equipment for small and large workshops is needed the same, the difference is only on scale and performance. What is required for the production of boots?

• Industrial or household charter.
• Vibropress with steam feed.
• Industrial washing machine.
• Drying chamber.
• If the model range is represented not only by the classic (semi-automatic press for vulcanization of rubber sole, etc.).
• Adaptations: pads, beasts, etc.

Industrial and handicraft production

The industrial production of boots allows you to produce up to 60 pairs of shoes per day, handicraft option - up to 2-3 pairs. Any boat manufacturing plant produces not only shoes, but related products: blankets, pillows, slippers, rugs and more.

Today, handmade products are popular, including boots. Experienced masters they get aesthetic, with a modern model side. But no hands will steal the wool to the desired state described in GOST. Factory for the production of boots always provides its product with a certificate of conformity and useful tips for caring for a purchased pair.

Water shoe manufacturing plants

In the old days, the rolling was engaged in whole whales, the occupation was difficult, but brought sufficient income to the artels. Now in Russia such shoes are produced by an industrial way. Factories for the production of boots are located in several regions, they are around them about fifteen, the five leaders are:

• The largest player in this market is the Yaroslavl Feling Factory, which produces shoes per year to 600 thousand.
• Does not lose its position by one of the oldest factories - the Kukmorsky Valtalo-Felt Combine, the annual release of the boots here is up to 900 thousand pairs.
• Company "ELVI-PLUS", production volume - 300 thousand couples of boots for the year.
• The Omsk Plant of Blind Shoe produces 170 thousand couples per year.

The rest of the enterprises produce a much smaller volume of boots, from 45 to 150 thousand couples per year. Falls of Russian production accounted for a successful alternative to foreign footwear, called UGGI. Each buyer has its tastes, addiction and values \u200b\u200bfor which one or another product is selected. But as for the woven, in comparison with foreign analogues, in many indicators, this ancient Russian invention demonstrates the best characteristics for our latitudes.

The production of boots in Moscow has been established at the Bittsev Factory, which manufactures shoes for more than 150 years. The retail chain of stores spread throughout the country, and Muscovites can purchase a favorite pair, without leaving outside the capital, at the address: Builders Street, House 6, Corps 4 (University Metro).

How to choose Valenki

A successful couple of boots will serve not one year and will warm the owner in the most severe frosts. The choice of shoes from wine wool is carried out according to the following principles:

• Real boots are 100% consisting of wool. The material should be dense and homogeneous in composition. If you are observed propellets, thickening, lumps, then the shoes quickly break.
• Flarers are not divided into right and left, they are made the same. Form shoes acquires during socks. Buying a couple, make sure that both boots are the same in shape, height of the sock, the inner and external length of the foot, the size of the top.
• Smell. The only smell that can be at the boots is the smell of gorgeous wool, he will quickly disappear. If there is a smell of wet wool, it means a violation of the technological process, at some stage the product was poorly washed or dried, it is impossible to get rid of it.
• The real boat, the sole and the heel are made with a noticeable thickening, since in these places the shoes are faster and loses the form. To determine - enough for it.
• Elasticity. Footwear from wool should not be too soft (disbanded canvas) or too dense. To evaluate this quality, it's enough to bend a little shore, at hand, high-quality wool will spring and quickly blend.
• The size. Valenki can be cleaned in width, and in length they sit down, so you need to buy a pair of 1-2 size more. To determine the desired, there is a table matching table and boot.
• The most natural - felt boots from non-colored wool, even natural dyes reduce therapeutic quality of sheep wool.

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This process consists of a variety of stages:
wool needs to be cleaned, play, "smash" to the villi, roll, soak in boiling water and salt solution, to spawn on triangular shape, and then knocked down on the block to the desired size, dry ..

* It is not surprising that before the mechanization of their manufacturing boots were expensive. In peasant families in one pair, the whole family went in turn. Wovenka - shoes calculated, first of all, on dry frosty weather. If you want to wear boots in a slush, you will have to additionally buy galoshes to them.
In different ends of Russia, Valenki had various names: Valenuhi, Valley, Valen, Valense, rods, scouts, boots, pima.

The Russian peasants had a considerable experience in the manufacture of boots at home, which was transferred to us.

The production of boots is based on the features of wool easily approach. The ability of wool to fall (to form felt) is enhanced if it is simultaneously, on one side, disintegrate by heating in warm water or influence which chemical (acids or alkalis), and on the other - to enhance the effect of mechanical strength, which causes wool fibers to intertwine between themselves.

The home process of manufacture of boots consists of the following operations:

For the manufacture of one pair of boots, you need to take 2.2-2.4 kg of inhomogeneous coarse wool, better than autumnenen, and divide the flower manually. Then the vegetable and mineral supplements are removed from it, for this:

Wool is soaked in warm water (35 ... 40 °) with the addition of 1% of its volume of calcined soda or synthetic powder for washing woolen products. Withstand wool in liquid at least 30 minutes

Spoiled wool with hands, washed three times in the soap-soda solution with a concentration of soap 0.3 and soda 0.2% of the water volume, or 3 g of soap and 2 g of soda per 1 liter of water. The temperature of the detergent solution should be 45-52 ° C. After three-time washing, the wool is wicked in clean water and dried.

Using dry inhomogeneous wool is purified from buried, straw and other impurities manually.

Then wool scratch with special chellices - manual cards (see video 3)

From the resulting dense web, the pattern is cut out, which should be 1.8-2 times more finished boots. Safety wool with a smooth layer lay on top on the water-swammed pattern. Where there will be a boat sole, wool put more (see video 1)

The edges of the pattern are flexing inside and on top of the exact side of the workpiece, wrap in the same fabric and start ripped on the table with an effort splashing the workpiece with hot water.

The process of transformation of a wate-like mass in felt under the action of hot water and mechanical exposure to hands occurs within 10 minutes

The boots thus obtained are immersed by 4-5 hours into a weak solution of sulfuric acid (50 g per 2 liters of water), in which the fur is degreased and even more "falls".

Next, it is necessary to do everything to make a large-sized rival, consisting of loose felt mass, compact ... Seal is carried out with the force of ribbed boiling board with a ribbed surface (Rubel)

The felt boots are immersed for 10 minutes in boiling water, then lay it out and crushed his hands. This process resembles a laundry laundry and "lay" on a ribbed surface.
When the product cools, it is put in boiling water and again spend the same operation, "washing" and rolls.
This process is repeated 3-4 times within one and a half or two hours. Wovenok is increasingly compacted, decreases in size and acquires the appropriate form of the finished product.

* The formation of boots is carried out after sufficient sealing. In the wet boots insert the block (the shape of the boot) consisting of five separate parts. In this form, it is put in a furnace or oven and dried about 70 ° C for a day. The block is removed, and the boots clean the pumice and burn to remove sticking veins.
After these final operations, boots are ready

* Welding boots can only be engaged in very patient and calm people, because it is a very painstaking and long-term process that requires full return.

Make boots with your own hands can be 2 methods:
- using stencil
- Using a volumetric billet

1. Using the stencil.
To match the boots with a stencil, you need to decide on the pattern, because natural wool gives a strong shrinkage.
Thick cardboard is suitable - it is necessary to lay woolen layers on it, and you need to do it at the same time on both stencils.

The first layer of wool is laid out arbitrarily, and the subsequent should be located strictly perpendicular to the previous one. Do not be greedy - let the wool be a little out of the boundaries of the pattern, at the end of the edge of the edge it will still have to beaten down.

Wool can move and crawl, so you need to watch it carefully and spread it as close as possible. For ordinary boots, it is usually enough six layers of wool, but if you want to make very warm boots, then increase the number of layers up to eight or ten.

Wet filling of felt boots from wool involves the processing of billets with hot soaps, before the formation of the desired product thickness. Then the boots should be flush, cut, remove the stencil and rinse well in the same soap solution to the desired shrinkage. The final stage will be stuffing the boots with paper and drying.

2. How to eat boots using the workpiece.

The rolling process of boots is similar to the previous one, only a cardboard pattern acts as a forming element, but rubber shoes. Only boots need to pick up at least several sizes more desired, as wool gives a strong shrinkage. Rubber boots should be large for a third more than the size of future boots.

Also, as in the case of cardboard, woolen layers are laid out perpendicular to each other - it is necessary for a better grip of the villi. Special attention should be paid to the sole, as well as the uniformity and uniformity of the layers, otherwise the blasting thickness will be unequal in different parts and a lot of time will be required to correct defect.

To finally fasten the shape of the product, a hot soap solution is used (than hot, the better). Wrap the flange into the grid or coal and start to sprinkle it with soapy water, radiating the surface with his hands or rolling it with a wooden massager, a rolling pin.

However, do not overdo it if you immediately begin to begin to begin, then holes may form in the boots. The whole process takes about 40 minutes - if you decide to simplify the work, then nothing good will come of it. You need to carefully carry the boots, otherwise the layers can move and fasten. That's when you feel that the layers have fixed and do not shift at all, the boots are ready.
It remains only to fill it with a suitable size with bottles and dry.

***
Felt products, including boots, are found in the excavations of the rather ancient Kurgans. The initial design was not so perfect as the one that we have today: the top of the top is separate and sewn to the shoe, so they did not differ in great strength. Only at the beginning of the XIII century artisans of the city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl province, consisting of four parts, a combined block, which allowed the felt of the woven entirely.

* Valenki played a strategic role during the Great Patriotic War, defending Soviet soldiers from junior frosts.
They stored in winter cold health to millions of people.

* Wolly products and now enjoy in great demand among the population. Especially they need to builders, fishermen, people of old age living in the countryside and very often in cold apartments.

In industrial production, rolls are made using valral machines, in which wool or items from it in a wet state are subject to the action of pressure force at a moderate temperature (30 ... 40 °). As a result of the operation of the external forces, the fibers are mixed, intertwined and compacted. The wool fibers contain them, preventing displacement in the finished product. The strength of the product is thus rising.

video:
1 - How to make felt boots
2 - Wet Fluff
3. Cache wool for boots
4 + 5 - Flawing with the help of the workpiece.

How to open such a business

Wovenka do it yourself

Demand felt boots Continuously grows. This promotes the "aging of the population" - for old people, the boots are favorite home shoes. On the other hand, the growing and leading healthy lifestyle Middle class moves from urban apartments in cottages, where the boots are comfortable home, courtyard and walking shoes. The demand and children's boots are growing. The plants remaining from Soviet times produce, mainly "oak" black and gray boots, whereas now the main demand for white and colored felt boots, on felt boots with embroidery and appliqué, on beautiful multicolored children's boots.

Valenki is an old shoes, comfortable, warm and durable. Until recently, it was associated with a rustic style, did not enjoy wide popularity. But thanks to the global trend towards the use of natural materials, the study of the ancient crafts, she gained a new life. The main criterion that characterizes the quality of the shoes is from which boots are made, what technique and material are used. Despite the development of modern technologies, the manufacturing process requires the use of knowledge and methods used by ancestors.

What is imagined

The answer to the question of what boys is, knows, probably, every person living in conditions of harsh winter. This is a shoe, cut from wool, not having a sole, intended for dry frosty weather. Traditional boots - monolithic, laconic, without fasteners, lightning, abundant decor. They are spacious, comfortable, easily removed and wear. Winter models can warm felt, soft are used as home shoes or under rubber boots.

Valenki - ancient shoes, her prototype were short boots, resembling Kalosh - Chuni, cats, kings. Versity of origin is very much. A large number of interesting facts about boots associated with the legends of the advent of felt are known:

1. Felt accidentally invented Pope Roman Clement I. He used the covers as lining. Under the influence of sweat, constant pressure wool has become a felted blade.
2. The Apostle of Joachov during a long transition collected shreds of sheep wool, put in shoes so that it rubbed her legs less. So it turned out the first insoles.
3. Noah, the Ark was lined with wool. Thanks to salted water and the tamper, animals turned out a peculiar felled carpet.

According to archaeological studies, Valenki appeared in the IV century BC - fragments of woolen shoes were found during excavations in Altai. The craft was well developed in the Caucasus, in Tibet, Carpathians. It was used by herd workers, nomadic tribes Eurasian steppes. The history of the occurrence of boots in Russia is associated with a period of Golden Horde, a neighborhood with Mongolian and Turkic tribes. The first mention of wool shoes was recorded in the work of the word about the regiment of Igor. Products were expensive, only rich people could buy them. Often, one couple was bought for a whole family, she used it alternately.

First, the boots in Russia crumbled and stuck. One-piece products without seams began to be manufactured at the beginning of the XIX century in the Nizhny Novgorod province. The style of shoes, the most similar to modern models, was invented by Myshkin's Masters. When industrial production was improved, the boots became more accessible, popular and indispensable. They used workers and peasants. During World War II, shoes wore Soviet soldiers. Famous steel were white rivets of snipers. Gradually the popularity of products some slept - winter has become warmer, slush, with frequent thaws.

Valenks are known under many names - rods, woven, pyma, chasancakes, waves, anticipation. The name of the shoe varied depending on the region and the material of the manufacture. They stand out by many advantages:

• well maintain heat, characterized by excellent breathability;
• durable, durable, comfortable;
• hypoallergenic, lungs, comfortable.

The advantage of the felon shoe is its positive effect on the body - it produces a massage effect on the feet, improves blood flow, facilitates the state with rheumatism or radiculitis.

The disadvantages of products include the water permeability, the need for careful care. However, with proper operation, shoes are able to serve several seasons. That is why it is so claimed and popular.

Now the story of Wovenok continues its development - new technologies appeared, fashion trends have changed. The model range of products has expanded significantly. The assortment of ordinary styles is added models with a rubber or leather sole, with a top of different lengths, configurations, a variety of decor.

Materials

Depending on what boots make, their cost, quality, methods of use are determined. In the old Valenki, they did solely from the wool, which was construed with live sheep. Such a material is called the world. In modern production, except wool uses additional materials that help improve shoes, make it universal, relevant to new requirements.

The main material for boots is a semi-bonding sheep wool, resulting from a spring and autumn haircut. Raw materials will be taken to Russia from the Caucasus, from Mongolia, some Asian countries. Interesting models are created from goat, rabbit, dog wool. Exotic fluffy products are obtained from camel wool.

Sheep's wool

Rabbit

Significant changes were made to the production of shoes. For greater convenience, strength and waterproof, the sole is made with a leather or rubber - it is glued or sewn. Often there are variants of cast or corrugated niza. Winter models are additionally insulated with fur or felt cloth. To protect against moisture, the outdoor portion of the shoes can be covered with waterproof textiles.

Valenki react poorly to humidity - they can wet, deform. To preserve an attractive appearance, the operational qualities of the shoes follows after purchasing it thoroughly process it. A special impregnation is applied to the top - a water-repellent spray for suede and nubuck, the sole is lubricated with silicone sealant. It is possible to dry products only at room temperature, stored in a dark, dry place.

Rubber, rifle

Leather, cast sole

Production features

Wool is the only natural material that, thanks to characteristic scales, is capable of leaving among themselves without additional funds. Based on such a feature, an ancient craft was originated - felting or skating. Two ways of producing shoes - manual and industrial.

Manual roll

Pimokat masters who are lying hand-made, a little known. Their work is heavy, painstaking, but shoes made by skillful hands - high-quality, durable, environmentally friendly. It costs it more expensive, but this difference is justified - the creation of one couple of boots may be needed for several days.

The manufacturing process consists of the following steps:

1. Cleaning the material. Outlined wool is carefully separated from garbage, sorted by color.
2. Manufacture of keen. Raw materials crushed, it becomes like fluff.
3. Wool is processed with boiling water, folded by a thin layer.
4. A pattern is created, felting begins. In the process of rolls, the product decreases in the amount, becomes dense and tough.
5. The billet is installed on the block and is covered with a wooden stick. As a result, the boots become softer, take the desired size.
6. Shoes go drying to the oven.

The masters in their work do not use any chemicals. The result is high-quality natural white, brown or gray shoes. At the final stage, the product is polished with wooden bar.

Mass production

As a result of industrial development, the mass production of boots was established. It is based on modern technologies, requires special equipment.

1. Primary processing - cleansing, washing, sorting.
2. Raw materials goes to treble, chairs.
3. A cowel is placed on pressing plates, where pieces of felted canvas are formed.
4. The billet is done, which goes on stretching.
5. The product passes the roll stage - placed in hot water drums. Some manufacturers at this stage use sulfuric acid. Several times the felt boots are stretching, so they acquire the desired size.
6. After rolls, shoes are put on a metal block, processed by steam.
7. Finished products are dried at a temperature of 100 degrees for 6 hours.

Valenki is amenable to a variety of experiments - they are grinding, polished, lacked with carbon black glue, soaked with rubber dissolved gasoline. Thus it creates a water-repellent effect.

Color

Traditional coloring boots are natural colors - white, gray, brown, black. In the older wizard, natural dyes were used for staining shoes. White felt boots were obtained by using Belil and pair milk. The solution was rubbed into the surface and then carefully sucked. The dark shade was reached with the help of alum, sandalwood or copper mood.

Modern models of boots correspond to fashion trends, are created in a variety of colors. Bright red, purple, yellow, green models refresh the image, give ease, feeling of heat. Restrained beige, blue, burgundy products are universal and practical. Golden and silvery boots became relevant.

For staining felt, special dyes for wool are used. You can also paint or decorate boots at home. For this, acrylic paints are used on fabric, special dyes for suede.

An interesting find was staining woolen products paint for hair.

Features of designer models

Russian boots in modern interpretation are interesting, beautiful, unique. Major manufacturers of old shoes in Russia are Kalyaev, "Tofa", "Kotofey", Zebra. Their assortment is diverse. Every year from the conveyor go out:

• half haulars, short, high models;
• with fitting and free green;
• equipped with lightning, shoelaces, clasps;
• stoys on heels, platform and wedge;
• warm, comfortable and bright felt boots for children with interesting images of fabulous characters or favorite animals;
• practical, durable men's shoes - Bourge.

Among the variety of styles, designer models are allocated - thanks to copyright ideas, such boots are unique and unique. Often, professionals decorated shoes manually, they use expensive materials - the work is complex, requires patience and painstaking work. For these reasons, designer shoes are expensive, status. Among the domestic fashion designers are allocated original ideas of Vladislav Zaitsev, he invented many interesting models:

• with a gradient transition of color;
• decorated by rhinestones, ribbons, fur, lace, beads;
• embroidered, cross.

A very interesting idea is to create wedding boots. Ordinary white fur shoes are decorated with smooth embroidery and inserts from lace.

Wovenka - practical, warm, natural shoes. In the old days she was simply indispensable. Currently, due to the trend towards the use of natural materials, the relevance of folk motives, the popularity of the valve shoes has increased. Manufacturers adapted felt boots to modern requirements, completed other materials, decorated. The result was fashionable, beautiful and high-quality shoes.

"Kalyaev"

"Kotofey"

Valenki from Vladislav Zaitseva

Video

Photo

It is impossible not to note that our old boots return to fashion. This is truly Russian shoes, which is perfect for winter frosts. Did you know what boots do not need to go to a deaf village or buy for mad money in the store? Flawing boots at home allows you to make the process rapid and interesting, in our article we will tell you how to do it.

Main job

The process of felting rivets from wool is difficult, long, but very interesting. So, you will need to work:

• Wool;
• Template;
• Film with pouchers, such is usually used for packaging fragile materials, it is possible to buy it in a construction store;
• Grid;
• Hot water;
• Liquid soap (soap solution can be used);
• Towel;
• In our master class we used a bath rug.

First you need to remove the measurements and taking into account all the sizes to make the pattern, the size should be increased by about forty percent, because the wool will sit down during the felting. To build the drawing, you can use the template you suggested.

We tear off the wool with small pieces and put on the template, the wool must "look" in one direction, the next layer wool "looks" in the opposite direction. We continue to lay out about three or four layers in this way.

After completing the work with the first side, you need to cover the product with a mesh, water all this case with a hot soap solution, stroke and increase the power of pressing.

Now the product needs to turn over, all the protruding pieces of wool wrap and do all the same actions as with the first side.

Over the grid again, we water the soapy solution.

The product turn over and sweep the protruding pieces.

At this stage of work, our boots should look like the photo below:

Now the grid must be changed to the pupil film, due to its design, this film evenly distributes pressure, thereby accelerating the felting process. Now you need to press very much, movements must be confident.

You can even take advantage of auxiliary objects:

Now we remove the pupil film and check how well our boots falls.

If the hairs are easily separated, it means you need to work more intense, the product should not be very raw and in no case is cold, if necessary, you can add a soap solution based on hot water.

If the product began to decrease in size, the workpiece must be cut: we have two parts.

We continue to knock, equip, roll, it is very important to attach more effort when working with cuts and nose.

Our boots are ready, you can fill them with packages, newspapers or simply paper, it is necessary for the boots to take the right and beautiful shape.

By this principle, you can make wonderful souvenir boots and use them to decorate the interior to the New Year holiday or as an ornament on the Christmas tree.

Of course, the boots, which in fashion today, are somewhat different from those worn in the old days our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers. You yourself could see in the store painted boots or embroidered, you can also decorate your product, making embroidery on it, while playing with special paints, here you can give freedom of your imagination.

As mentioned above, you can decorate the boots in different ways, and we will tell you the most popular of them.

Lace

It seems that this is an unusual option for decorating the boots, but the product decorated with this material looks very feminine, gently and unusual, in such a shoe you will be like a real Snow Maiden. The image can be added by the beads. Before you sew the lace to the boots, it is worth a pretty stroke the iron.

Fur

Fur finish not only give your shoes finished and beautiful, but also serve as an additional insulation. It is worth noting that fur can be used both artificial and natural.

Applique

Applique can be made absolutely from any fabric (felt, wool, leather, and so on), you can choose any image that you only like it, you can print a template from a computer and transfer it to a product with a disappearing marker (which is sold at any needlework store ). Application can be sewed or glued.

Painted

Everything is simple here. We take special waterproof paints, draw contour and paint. Even if you do not know how to draw, you can cope with this task. Just find the stencil you need and blaming it.

Video on the topic

Now that you met with the process of felting felt boots at home, you can easily cope with this task. You even know some ways to decorate this product, we only told about some, because the technicians described in the article are far from all ways to decorate boots. We offer you even watch a video from this selection, thanks to which you can consolidate the knowledge gained and learn some ideas.