Shuunnya Gear
Hand-Stitched Kolhapuri Chappal
Vegetable-tanned leather, braided by hand, not a nail or a drop of glue in it.
₹2,400
₹2,900
-17%Inclusive of all taxes
Size: UK 6
₹2,400
UK 6
The Shuunnya promise
A traditional chappal built with stitch and thong alone, so it can always be reopened and repaired.
- Vegetable tanned, no chrome salts
- Hand braided and hand stitched, no nails or glue
- Bottom sole layer replaceable by any Kolhapuri artisan
- Colour deepens for years, it is meant to
- Made by artisan families paid per pair
Quality & reports
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Details
A Kolhapuri made the way the craft actually specifies. The upper is hand-braided goat leather over a buffalo leather sole, tanned with bark and myrobalan rather than chrome, and stitched with leather thread. There is no nail and no adhesive anywhere in the shoe, which is why a good pair outlives several pairs of moulded sandals. It starts stiff. Ten or fifteen wears in, the sole flexes, the braid relaxes and the pale tan turns towards a deep honey colour that keeps going for years. Every pair differs slightly because each is cut and braided by one artisan.
- Hand-braided goat leather upper, buffalo leather sole in three stitched layers
- Vegetable tanned with bark and myrobalan, no chrome salts
- Stitched with leather thread, no nails and no glue
- Sole layers can be opened and a new bottom layer stitched in
- Made in Kolhapur and Athani by artisan families paid per pair, not per hour
- No synthetic sole, no factory-printed grain
Product information
Materials
- Upper
- Hand-braided goat leather
- Sole
- Buffalo leather, three stitched layers, 9 mm total
- Tanning
- Vegetable, bark and myrobalan
- Thread
- Leather thong, hand pulled
Craft
- Origin
- Kolhapur and Athani, Maharashtra and Karnataka
- Making time
- About six hours per pair, one artisan
- Fasteners
- None, no nails and no adhesive
- Weight
- 260 g per chappal at UK 8
Fit and wear
- Fit
- Snug when new, relaxes about half a size
- Break-in
- Ten to fifteen wears
- First rains
- Keep dry for the first month, the leather is still setting
Repairs and care
- Resoling
- Bottom sole layer can be unstitched and replaced
- Spares
- Braid strips and thong supplied free for repairs
- Care
- Castor or neatsfoot oil twice a year, never wash
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