Lapti (<<Лапти>>) are shoes woven from
tree fiber. Peasants throughout the world have made shoes woven from
tree fiber. Why tree fiber? Tree fiber is cheap (free), as trees are
everywhere (with luck), and little effort is required with little
expertice to create these inexpensive shoes, used when it is not wet winter.
Baste shoes were (are) used in Russia, China, Korea, Japan, etc. Laugh at
them? Think twice as you buy expensive sandles.