Lapti
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Bast shoes are shoes made primarily from bast—fiber taken from the bark of trees, such as linden. They are a kind of basket, woven and fitted to the shape of a foot. Bast shoes are a traditional footwear of the forest areas of Northeastern Europe, formerly worn by poorer members of the Finnic peoples, Balts, Scandinavian peoples, and East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians). They were easy to manufacture, but not durable. Similar shoes have also been made of strips of birch bark in more northern areas where linden bast is not readily available.
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