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The soles of slippers are made of a wide variety of materials

Jan 02, 2023

Sole machine first: TPR bottom

This bottom is the most common, TPR bottom process is divided into TPR soft bottom, TPR hard ground, TPR side seam bottom, and many friends say that rubber bottom, tendon bottom, blow molded bottom, adhesive bottom can be classified as this category.

The advantages of TPR bottom are soft, waterproof, and wear resistance. It feels like rubber that we are familiar with at ordinary times. Another kind of bottom is pressed into cloth on the basis of TPR, which increases the durability of TPR.

 

The second kind: EVA bottom

This kind of bottom many people will feel strange, in fact, people who often go on business trips and love watching Korean dramas are not strange, hotel drag is basically made of this kind of bottom. Many families in Korean dramas wear slippers with this sole.

The advantages of EVA bottom are: firm, light, easy to clean.

 

The third kind: point plastic cloth bottom

Dot plastic cloth is not very popular in China, because many people feel inconvenient, feel not waterproof. In fact, in foreign countries, this bottom is also very common, especially the American favorite. Most of them are used in animal shoes. Japan and Korea also like to wear this kind of sole, because this kind of sole is very good at anti-slip, because its mute effect is also used in many high-end hotels and hospitals. Soft, light and non-slip.

 

The fourth kind: cloth base

There are many kinds of cloth bottom, useful suede, useful canvas, and can mop the floor of the mop velvet, cloth bottom slippers, cloth bottom slippers for wood floors, soft comfortable, easy to clean, most of the direct throw into the washing machine can be. If you have a carpet in your room, or a very high-end wood floor, or you are a woman who does not go out for a long time, like to nest in the bedroom online, then soft and comfortable cloth soled slippers are definitely the choice. But this kind of bottom shoes from the process is more difficult and the audience market is not big, the market is rare. The Chinese market is not easy to handle.

 

The fifth kind: PVC

It is a process synthesized after a layer of leather is outsourced at the bottom of EVA. The soles of outer stitched shoes (pictured) are also mostly made of this material. Same as plastic cloth, EVA, cloth sole, PVC sole is also mostly used in Japanese and Korean slippers. Probably because most of the families in Japan and South Korea are wood floors and carpets, this kind of bottom slippers are basically indiscriminate, very easy to wear and change. So this bottom is the most popular in Japan and South Korea, will not be stained with dust, dirty as long as the cloth rub two times clean. But for the Chinese people is not so good to accept, in fact, his foot sense is still relatively blunt.

 

Sixth: Others

There are a lot of fabrics can be used in the sole, such as leather, but it is less common and belongs to the luxury is not to say more.

How to solve slipper bottom slip?

1. Make a longitudinal cut in the right quarter of the sole to a depth of about 0.5 cm. With this cut as the center, make a diagonal cut from the right side.

2. Similarly, make an incision on the left side. This creates a V-shaped groove from the tip of the shoe to the heel.

3, at the side of 0.5 cm and longitudinal scratch a knife, with the tip of the knife to pick out the middle of the sponge, cut down a groove, with the same method to draw the remaining two longitudinal groove.

Tip: When cutting the sponge, be careful to use the knife at an Angle, so that you can easily tear off a whole sponge.

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