Women’s Vellies – Venda

Our Women's Vellies - Venda a modernised version of the original South African Veldskoen. Manufactured in black suede with a tribal pattern design and black leather trim. Interior of our Women's Vellies - Venda fully lined with leather and fitted with fiber board insoles. Covered in latex foam and wrapped with leather for your comfort. Our fiber board innersoles much more breathable and durable. Also lasting up to 10 years, as well as helping to prevent soles from splitting in half. Fitted with 100% genuine eco rubber soles for outstanding quality and good grip. Soles also hand-stitched into the bottom of the shoe. All soles can be replaced and recycled when needed. All NAVA Apparel shoes handmade by local South African craftsmen and women. Without their skills, our quality products wouldn't exist.

Veldskoene ("FELT-skoona") or colloquially vellies ("FELL-ys"). Southern African walking shoes made from vegetable-tanned leather or soft rawhide uppers. Attached to a leather footbed and rubber sole without tacks or nails. The name comes from Afrikaans vel ("skin"), also assimilated with veld ("field"), and skoene ("shoes"). They were first made in the 17th century by the first Dutch settlers in South Africa. Their design also based on the traditional Khoisan footwear observed by settlers. The footwear was later embedded into the Afrikaaner psyche when velskoene were used as the footwear of the Great Trek.

Artist Inspiration: The Venda Collection designed to represent the Venda people of South Africa. Venda people also a Bantu group native to Southern Africa living mostly near the Zimbabwean border. Their history starts from the Kingdom of Mapungubwe, with their first King Shiriyadenga and the first Venda settlement, that of legendary chief Thoho-ya-Ndou (Head of the Elephant) in the Soutpansberg. The remains of his royal kraal, D’zata, also declared a National Monument. See our Venda Collection Here.

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