Espadrille

The light shoe with a braided jute sole and a fabric upper.

The espadrille has been worn in the Pyrenees for centuries by peasants and workers. The name comes from esparto, a grass braided into soles.

In the 20th century the shoe became a summer shoe across Europe and in the USA. It is still made in southern France and northern Spain.

Materials: Jute, cotton fabric, sometimes rubber under the sole

Manufacture: Sewn by hand, with a braided jute sole and a fabric upper, in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

The braided rope sole.

The simple fabric upper.

The ribbons tied around the ankle.

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