Nishimura Japanese Silk Shoe - Size 3.5

These Shoes are part of the Japanese Silk Collection from Ruth Emily Davey’s travels to Japan in 2016 as part of her Fellowship with The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. She collected a piece of fabric from all the Craft organisations / Workshops she visited to commemorate her travels into a collection celebrating Japanese Traditional Craft.

The uppers are made from Hand Woven ‘Hakata-Ori’ Japanese Raw Silk - Woven with Gold Paper by Nishimura Orimono. They have Laces and Brogue edging at the heel made from soft, full grain Italian Pearl leather. The uppers have rolled edges which are fully lined in soft, sumptuous Lilac suede.

All our Shoes are naturally foot shaped. They are designed to be snug around your arch and wide enough to allow your toes to spread into the toe box. Our Footwear is all built to last - designed to be repairable for many years to come.

Our Shoes are made using a special leather innersole which is flexible so your feet can feel very natural - like wearing no shoes at all. We back them with a tyre tread with a very minimal 3mm heel. When your shoes need new soles, simply send them back and we give them a new lease of life.

• Size 3.5

• Toe shape - Standard

• Made from hand woven ‘Hakata-Ori’ Japanese raw silk woven with gold paper woven by Nishimura Orimono.

• Brogue detailing in soft, full grain, Italian Pearl leather.

• Fully lined in soft sumptuous suede.

• Double outsole stitched. Finished with cream stitching.

• 5mm soft leather inner soles tanned in the UK - flexible so your footprint embeds into the sole over time.

• Rubber Tyre tread outer soles - replaceable when they wear down.

• Handmade matching leather laces reinforced with waxed thread.

“Hakata-ori is characterised by fine, supple, thick material—qualities attained by using a number of thin warps and thick wefts made by twisting multiple thin yarns together. These two layers of yarn are woven together using a reed that creates a horizontal bump in the fabric, and the pattern is woven by bringing the warps to the surface. Touching the fabric for the first time I was surprised how silk can be so very thick until Mr Nishimura explained that it was 1,500 threads woven tightly together.”