Pulp
Offcuts from the previous run go back into the vat. Nothing leaves the floor as waste, it just becomes next season.
Numbered run 001 · Seven layers
Pressed in Ghent
Aura Sole
A sneaker built the way a sheet of paper is: pulped, cut, folded and pressed. Seven layers go into the press separate and come out as one object that still remembers being separate. Scroll to take it apart.
Colorway — Manila Press
Unbleached kraft stock, pressed twice.
CutFoldPressNumberWearReturnPulp
Anatomy
Seven sheets, one shoe
Nothing here is moulded. Each layer is a flat sheet with a job, stacked in an order that has not changed since the first pair. Hover a layer to pull it out of the stack.
Craft
A mill, not a factory
Three rooms, one press, and a vat that never fully empties. The offcuts from every run go back in, so each pair carries a little of the one before it.
Cut
Every panel is knife-cut against a steel rule. The burr on the edge is left visible, because it is the honest part.
Press
Seven layers go under forty tonnes for a minute. They come out as one object that still remembers being separate sheets.
- Stock
- Recycled 340gsm, deckled
- Layers
- Seven, laminated cold
- Weight
- 212g, single shoe, size 42
- Finish
- Beeswax, hand-buffed
- Run
- Numbered to 400 pairs