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This shoe-summer has been a lot about clogs in different shapes, colours and with or without decorations. The interest in handmade wodden clogs has again brought the age-old craftsmanship back to life and out on the streets!

My personal clog-favourites and the one pair of shoes I’ve worn the most the last couple of months are the ones on the pic up right, the Peep toe Super High from the Swedish Hasbeens.

Rumours say the Swedish Hasbeens will release a range of boots (Jodhpur, Lace up, tall boots…) very shortly. That’s great news on a coldish late August night!

Update: The collection of new autumn boots are now viewable online and will be in stock by next Friday, September 4th. I’m going to keep an extra eye on and maybe try stick my foot in these pairs (below) at stockist.

You might have seen the Dalecarlian Horse or Dala Horse, a famous symbol of Sweden and Swedish handicraft. It’s a traditional wooden statuette of a horse, originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna. They say the long winter evenings, wood scraps from the local furniture-making trade and paint-pigment from nearby copper mines bred the development of the Dala Horse. It is today one of few living folk traditions: skills for creating the horse have been, and still is, passed from generation to generation.

Now, did you know that there are several different designs available of the wooden horse? Here’s the finest piece, called “Ludvikahästen”. It has Little Western Flowers painted on it. Or Heartsease (Viola tricolor).