Espadrilles (Spanish: alpargatas; Catalan: espardenyes; Basque: espartinak), are casual, rope-soled, flat, but sometimes high-heeled shoes. They usually have a canvas or cotton fabric upper and a flexible sole made of esparto rope.
How do you make rope soles for shoes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lPdflKJwJI
How do you make rope-soled shoes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lPdflKJwJI
What is a jute sole?
The production of jute soles is quite complex. ... Jute twines are first machine-braided. These braids are then manually formed into the shape of the sole and hydraulically pressed with heat to form the final shape, and completed with vertical stitching. These basic soles are then vulcanized underneath.