Traditional type of peasant shoes were bast shoes. They are woven from vine or linden bast (soft bark). The material was harvested in May-June but the weavers began to weave in the fall or winter when all the work in the field was completed.
Lime branches were soaked overnight and then cut into strips up to 2 cm wide and 1.5-2 m long. Then the upper layer of the cortex was removed.
The exposition of the museum presents slant-weave bast shoes which are widespread mainly in the eastern regions of modern Belarus. Lapti of such weaving is often called a brace. They have deep noses, high sides and comma. Lapti-pohlapni considered festive shoes, they were worn for several years. They put this shoe on both bare feet and onuchi (footcloths). Obor (long ropes), they were fixed at the foot and tied crosswise to almost the knees.
