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Wooden upper clogs; are made by hollowing out a lump of solid wood to make a combined upper and lower. Two main variants can be seen: whole foot clogs; where the wooden upper covers the whole of the foot to near the ankle, such as the Dutch klomp. They are also known as "wooden shoes".
Over 2,200 different pairs of wooden shoes and footwear with wooden soles from 43 countries. [4] Hundreds of pieces of clog-making equipment from seven European countries. Simple machinery dating from the 1920s, from the Netherlands, Germany and France. An extensive collection of international literature, including photographs.
Dutch clogs, for everyday use. The red painting on top makes the clogs look like leather shoes. It is a traditional motif on painted clogs. A klomp (Dutch: ⓘ, plural klompen [ˈklɔmpə(n)] ⓘ) is a whole-foot clog from the Netherlands. Along with cheese, tulips, and windmills, they are strongly associated with the country and are considered ...
Dutch wooden shoes (whole feet clogs or klompen), in the traditional everyday use style. Nowadays mostly folklore, some three million pairs are made each year, primarily as souvenirs for the tourist industry. Only some Dutch farmers and gardeners still wear these as everyday footwear.
Pattens were worn outdoors over a normal shoe, had a wooden or later wood and metal sole, and were held in place by leather or cloth bands. Pattens functioned to elevate the foot above the mud and dirt (including human effluent and animal dung) of the street, in a period when road and urban paving was minimal. Women continued to wear pattens in ...
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Wooden foot-shaped blocks (lasts) for shaping them have been found in neolithic excavations, e.g. 4900 years old. [1] Bast shoes were still worn in the Russian countryside at the beginning of the twentieth century. Today bast shoes are sold as souvenirs and sometimes worn by ethnographic music or dance troupes as part of their costume.
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