Black Lotus - Long Slip On - Size 4.5

These Boots 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.

These Long Slip On boots are made from an Extra Special Japanese Kimono with an intricate Hand Woven Golden Silk Lotus flower design representing purity, enlightenment, and rebirth. The uppers have rolled edges and are fully lined in Black suede which means they are very soft and comfortable, yet robust.

All our Boots 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 Boots 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 4.5

• Toe shape - Standard.

• Authentic Japanese Kawashima Hand Woven Kimono.

• Made from soft, full grain Italian leather - world renown for its supple finish and durability.

• Fully lined.

• Double outsole stitched. Finished with matching 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.

Kyo-Yuzen is a technique of hand painting and dyeing silk mainly used for kimonos. It is a combination of beautiful colours and pictorial designs such as flowers, trees, birds, and scenery drawn and dyed on white silk by brush and often finished with gold leaf or embroidery. The beauty of nature is expressed on the fabric. Kyo-Yuzen has two dyeing styles: Tegaki-Yuzen, hand-painting, and Kata-Yuzen, stencil-dyeing. Hand-painting techniques were originally developed by Yuzensai Miyazaki in Kyoto in the middle of 17th century, therefore, the artform came to be called Yuzen. After that, stencil-dyeing techniques were developed by Jisuke Hirose in Kyoto during the 19th century.