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Vanessa on Jan 30, 2023
5 out of 5 starsWonderfully made! Excellent quality and made the the specifications I asked for. So cute and comfortable. Highly recommend this shop. Thanks!
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Karen on Jan 30, 2023
4 out of 5 starsThe quality of these slippers is really nice, very well made. It does match the description, the only reason I gave it a 4 is that they are a lot stiffer than I expected. I love the colors and they will last me for a very long time, I'm just not sure I would order them again. Having said that, this is only my opinion and it does not reflect the quality of them.
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Brenda on Jan 28, 2023
5 out of 5 starsThese slippers are beautiful, just like the picture showed. I asked for them to be made for wide feet for me and they fit perfectly. My feet are always cold in the Winter, but these keep my feet at a perfect temperature without making them sweat. Extremely comfortable, and not itchy at all. Thank you so much for such an awesome product!
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Isolde on Jan 26, 2023
5 out of 5 starsThese slippers are as wonderful as they looked in the picture. They are soo warm and cosy, my feet instantly fell in love with them. One thing that is important to me is quality craft(wo)manship and that is exactly what came out of the box. I am so grateful that I was able to purchase a pair of your handmade slippers Inga. I will be back! Warm greetings, Isolde
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Margaret on Jan 26, 2023
5 out of 5 starsThese are amazing slippers. Thick, soft, with a sturdy sole that is also very quiet for moving about the house. They were a gift and were very well received. And they fit perfectly. Awesome work!
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Suzie on Jan 24, 2023
5 out of 5 starsThese booties are beautiful. Inga created a masterpiece with the colors I chose :) The quality is five star. This is my 2nd pair from Bure Bure. Her slippers are a birthday present to myself; it's going to take a lot of discipline to wait!
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About BureBureSlippers
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My husband twice per year shearing sheep. This is cruelty free wool. -
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We live in our farmstead, making felting production from the wool from our farm. -
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My husband twice per year shearing sheep. The wool is carded in our farm using small carding equipment. -
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We live in our farmstead, making felting production from the wool from our farm. -
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Sheep breed which we grow in our farm is an ancient sheep breed, belongs to our countries heritage
Bure Bure - Handmade natural wool slippers and shoes
My name is Inga. I am crazy about shoes. Every pair I own must have an enduring value, exclusive design or specific innovation, which make those items unique. I also felt shoes. After more than 10 years of this craft, I can boldly admit that felting shoes is still the most interesting job to me. Most probably, it will remain so until the end of life.
BURE BURE handmade slippers shop emerged from strong passion for the shoes, which started in my early childhood.
As a child, I loved drawing. Most of the times I depicted girls in different beautiful dresses, with two dreadfully horrible legs… So every time I finished an elegant evening gown and moved my pencil down to the place where the legs needed to appear, I got stressed. How should those legs look like? What to do with feet? All the effort I put became one big disappointment in the end. And then one day my grandpa looked into my work. After an intent observation, he whispered that I drew legs the wrong way. At first I couldn’t understand how my old moustached grandad could know anything about princesses’ legs. But then, when he erased my effort and drew two perfect legs with the most wonderful shoes, I decided to take his advice into consideration very seriously. Since then, every time I shown my princess drawings, everyone was fascinated by their beautiful legs and shoes.
I was 29 when my life turned upside down because of the perfect material I discovered. It was natural, sewless, fitting… it was fascinating. I could make everything from it. This material was called felt and the first thing I created were a couple of comfortable slippers.
When my mum saw them, she called me a third generation shoemaker, because my grandad and gran grandad were shoemakers... I did not understand that as I child, but I actually spent my first years of life playing in their workplace, surrounded by sewing machines and shoe lasts.
Felt overpowered me.
I used to wake up at 5 a. m. in order to felt before work. While packing for a weekend trip with friends I would take all the equipment for shoemaking. At that time, I have created half of BURE BURE designs: slippers, ankle boots, sneakers, two-in-one, three-in-one. I started to decorate items with leather strips as my grandad used to do, got rid of any unnecessary stitches and clipping, learnt to felt shoes so that skin would only touch wool. As a peculiar 3d printer, I used to take wool curls and mold shoes from it.
Little by little, the time to start BURE BURE has come. Our family moved out of town, established an organic farm “Forestsheep”, avoided chemical fertilizers, actively engaged into recycling, saving “product miles” and founded BURE BURE shop where now I sell our handmade slippers.
Being a mother of 4, I understand perfectly how important it is to ensure a healthy environment for the new generation. Therefore, I could not let myself use wool from unknown manufacturers. I wanted to know all the details how it was made, so it became evident that it’d be proper to grow sheep on our own. Everything seemed so simple: I wanted to felt from high quality wool, so we needed sheep. And since we had to choose a breed, it felt right to pick a rare one, which genetic resources should be preserved. Infertile land we lived in became an advantage in this situation: being unimportant for farming industry, it remained natural so suitable for sensitive Skudden sheep breed. We are the only wool artisans in our small country using raw unwashed unpainted wool material produced in our own small sheep farm, but some part of wool and another material is purchased from abroad (One third part of wool materials is purchased mainly from Europe sheep breeders.
Now my husband Kestas takes care of an organic farm “Forestsheep” while I felt BURE BURE slippers. My husband twice per year shearing sheep. The wool is carded in our farm using small carding equipment. This is cruelty free wool. Felt making process takes place in our farmstead and in our studio in a small town near by us, on my husband's constructed special felting table, using no chemicals, just handwork, warm and hot water, natural olive soap. In the very beginning wool is laid on prepared template and moistened with warm water. Some decorations from another fabrics and fibres are added. The item begins felt using natural olive soap and adding hot water. After the felting item reaches desired shape and size, item is formed on a special shoetree and left to dry. According to the needs, the felted shoes or slippers soles can be covered with the layer of a natural rubber. All items can be outsourced. The client can choose desired model, color, size, decorations.
Environmental responsibility and product quality are much more important than quantity for us. We work by hands, slowly. We put care and attention to every item we make. Our businesses will never grow too big. This is not our aim.
I think we just chose to work so that we could live, not to live so that we could work.
My husband shop here https://www.etsy.com/shop/Forestsheep
Shop members
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Inga
Owner, Maker, Designer, Photography
I am a third-generation shoemaker, mostly I am working with handmade felted shoes and slippers, and I am a teacher of felting and shoes making.
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Kestas
Owner, Seller, Maker
I am a forester and farmer. Deep in the forests in our farmsted we grow an flock of ancient local sheep breed. So wood and wool is around me all the time. https://www.etsy.com/shop/Forestsheep
Production partners
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Kestutis Samušis
Molėtai, Lithuania
Slippers decorated with handmade wooden buttons from my husband shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/Forestsheep?ref=search_shop_redirect
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Cancellations: accepted
Request a cancellation: within 2 days of purchase
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Care instructions
Take care of your slippers
For hand stiched soles
1) Freshen up your woolen slippers by shaking them and getting rid of crumbled dirt, clean them with the vacuum cleaner and leave to ventilate for a few hours.
2) Dry clean.
For latex soles
Hand wash felted slippers in a warm water with a small amount of wool cleaning agent. Let woolen footwear dry naturally in a room temperature.
Caution: do not leave felted slippers with latex soles in a direct sunlight!
Custom and personalized orders
I am happy to discuss custom orders - please contact me with your requests. Please note that we do not accept returns of items that have been personalized, such as custom orders. Customers are not allowed to return or get refunds for products which are custom made.
Gift wrapping and packaging
I'm happy to gift wrap! If you have any questions, contact me!
Wholesale availability
We offer wholesale and have a catalogue we can send out. Please email us.
Men's Size Conversions
6US-39EU-5.5UK
6.5US-39EU-6UK
7US40EU-6.5UK
7.5US-40,5EU-7UK
8US-41ES-7.5UK
8.5US-41,5ES-8UK
9US-42ES-8.5UK
9.5US-42,5ES-9UK
10US-43ES-9.5UK
10.5US-43,5ES-10UK
11US-44ES-10.5UK
11.5US-44,5ES-11UK
12US-45ES-11.5UK
13US-46ES-12.5UK
Women's Size Conversions
4US-35EU-2UK
4.5US-35EU-2.5UK
5US-35.5EU-3UK
5.5US-36EU-3.5UK
6US-36.5EU-4UK
6.5US-37EU-4.5UK
7US-37.5EU-5UK
7.5US-38EU-5.5UK
8US-38.5EU-6UK
8.5US-39EU-6.5UK
9US-39.5EU-7UK
9.5US-40EU-7.5UK
10US-40.5EU-8UK
10.5US-41EU-8,5UK
11US-41.5EU-9UK
11.5US-42EU9.5UK
12US-42.5EU-10UK
Toddler Kids Size Conversions
US-7.5, EU-23, UK-6.5, 5 5/8 inch, 14.3 cm
US-8, EU-24, UK-7, 5 3/4 inch, 14.6 cm
US-8.5, EU-25, UK-7.5, 6 inch, 15.2 cm
US-9.5, EU-26, UK-8.5, 6 1/4 inch, 15.9 cm
US-10,EU-27,UK-9,6 1/2 inch 16.5 cm
US-10.5, EU-27, UK-9.5, 6 5/8 inches, 16.8 cm
US-11, EU- 28, UK - 10,6 3/4 inches, 17.1 cm
US-11.5, EU- 29, UK-10.5, 7 inches , 17.8 cm
US- 12, EU-30,UK-11, 7 1/8inches, 18.1cm
Youth Kids Shoe Size Conversions
US-12.5, EU- 30, UK-11.5, 7 1/4 inches, 18.4 cm
US-1, EU- 31, UK-12, 7 1/2 inches, 19.1 cm
US-13.5, EU- 31, UK-12.5, 7 5/8 inches, 19.4 cm
US-1, EU- 32, UK-13, 7 3/4 inches, 19.7 cm
US-1.5, EU- 33, UK-14, 8 inches, 20.3 cm
US-2 M, EU- 33, UK-1, 8 1/8 inches, 20.6 cm
US-2.5 M, EU- 34, UK-1.5, 8 1/4 inches, 21 cm
US-3 M, EU- 34, UK-2, 8 1/2 inches, 21.6 cm
US-3.5, EU-35, UK-2.5, 8 5/8 inches, 21.9 cm
US-4, EU-36, UK-3, 8 3/4 inches, 22.2 cm
US-4.5, EU-36, UK-3.5, 9 inches, 22.9 cm
US-5, EU-37, UK-4, 9 1/8 inches, 23.2 cm
US-5.5, EU-37, UK-4.5, 9 1/4 inches, 23.5 cm
US-6, EU-38, UK-5, 9 1/2 inches, 24.1 cm
US-6.5, EU-37, UK-5, 9 5/8 inches, 24.4 cm
US-7, EU-39, UK-6, 9 3/4 inches, 24.8 cm
Babies and Walker Kids Shoes Size Conversions
US-0, EU-16, UK-0, 3 1/4 inch,8.3 cm
US-1, EU-16, UK-0.5, 3 1/2 inch,8.9 cm
US-1.5, EU-17, UK-1, 3 5/8 inch,9.2 cm
US-2, EU-17, UK-1, 3 3/4 inch,9.5 cm
US-2.5, EU-18, UK-1.5, 4 inch,10.2 cm
US-3, EU-18, UK-2, 4 1/8 inch,10.5 cm
US-3.5, EU-19, UK-2.5, 4 1/4 inch, 10.8 cm
US-4, EU-19, UK-3, 4 1/2 inch, 11.4 cm
US-4.5, EU-20, UK-3.5, 4 5/8 inch, 11.7 cm
US-5, EU-20, UK-4, 4 3/4 inch, 12.1 cm
US-5.5, EU-21, UK-4.5, 5 inch, 12.7 cm
US-6, EU-22, UK-5.5, 5 1/8 inch, 13 cm
US-6.5, EU-22, UK-5.5, 5 1/4 inch, 13.3 cm
US-7, EU-23, UK-6, 5 1/2 inch, 14 cm
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