These beautiful and comfy felt slippers are handmade by talented artisans of “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC, Since 2006), using 100 percent Mongolian organic sheep wool. For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads processed wool into felt and used it to cover their traditional home called “ger” and made felt boots to survive the arctic winter of the land. Today, aside from the rural Mongolians, this tradition of felt making is kept alive by family businesses and cooperatives in urban areas of Mongolia. Terleg shop is working closely with members of WGCC and many other small businesses, who are in need of access to global market. Every sale will help us to help WGCC and their 33 members. To find out more about “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative, read our blog. Check out our website for more information at terleg.com!
Product overview
– Handmade item
– Main material is 100 percent Mongolian sheep wool
– Sole is made of genuine leather
– Eco-friendly
– Very comfortable and soft
– Warm in cold and cool in warm environments
– Do not make your feet sweaty
– This hand-processed and fortified felt makes slippers very durable
– Wearable indoor and outdoor (garden, patio etc…)
– Ships worldwide from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
These beautiful and comfy felt slippers are handmade by talented artisans of “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC, Since 2006), using 100 percent Mongolian organic sheep wool. For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads processed wool into felt and used it to cover their traditional home called “ger” and made felt boots to survive the arctic winter of the land. Today, aside from the rural Mongolians, this tradition of felt making is kept alive by family businesses and cooperatives in urban areas of Mongolia. Terleg shop is working closely with members of WGCC and many other small businesses, who are in need of access to global market. Every sale will help us to help WGCC and their 33 members. To find out more about “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative, read our blog. Check out our website for more information at terleg.com!
These beautiful and comfy felt slippers are handmade by talented artisans of “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC, Since 2006), using 100 percent Mongolian organic sheep wool. For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads processed wool into felt and used it to cover their traditional home called “ger” and made felt boots to survive the arctic winter of the land. Today, aside from the rural Mongolians, this tradition of felt making is kept alive by family businesses and cooperatives in urban areas of Mongolia. Terleg shop is working closely with members of WGCC and many other small businesses, who are in need of access to global market. Every sale will help us to help WGCC and their 33 members. To find out more about “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative, read our blog at http://wp.me/p5t77R-1J
Check out our website for more information at terleg.com!
These beautiful and comfy felt slippers are handmade by talented artisans of “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC, Since 2006), using 100 percent Mongolian organic sheep wool. For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads processed wool into felt and used it to cover their traditional home called “ger” and made felt boots to survive the arctic winter of the land. Today, aside from the rural Mongolians, this tradition of felt making is kept alive by family businesses and cooperatives in urban areas of Mongolia. Terleg shop is working closely with members of WGCC and many other small businesses, who are in need of access to global market. Every sale will help us to help WGCC and their 33 members. To find out more about “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative, read our blog at http://wp.me/p5t77R-1J
To find out more about Terleg, check out our website at terleg.com!
These beautiful and comfy felt slippers are handmade by talented artisans of “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC, Since 2006), using 100 percent Mongolian organic sheep wool. For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads processed wool into felt and used it to cover their traditional home called “ger” and made felt boots to survive the arctic winter of the land. Today, aside from the rural Mongolians, this tradition of felt making is kept alive by family businesses and cooperatives in urban areas of Mongolia. Terleg shop is working closely with members of WGCC and many other small businesses, who are in need of access to global market. Every sale will help us to help WGCC and their 33 members. To find out more about “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative, read our blog at http://wp.me/p5t77R-1J
These beautiful and comfy felt slippers are handmade by talented artisans of “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC, Since 2006) (http://wp.me/p5t77R-1J), using 100 percent Mongolian organic sheep wool. For thousands of years, Mongolian nomads processed wool into felt and used it to cover their traditional home called “ger” and made felt boots to survive the arctic winter of the land. Today, aside from the rural Mongolians, this tradition of felt making is kept alive by family businesses and cooperatives in urban areas of Mongolia. Terleg shop is working closely with members of WGCC and many other small businesses, who are in need of access to global market. Every sale will help us to help WGCC and their 33 members. You can purchase this item on TerlegArt Shop (Etsy).
Mongolia has a long history of felt making art. Even today, rural Mongolians still process their wool themselves, use felt to cover “ger” (Mongolian traditional round dwelling) and make boots etc… There has been a different story in the rapidly urbanised hubs of modern Mongolia. A sudden change of political and societal structure in early 1990s, shocked many Mongolian families. State owned large factories closed down, which resulted in a huge rise in unemployment. People had to learn new skills to make a living. Especially, this change had a catastrophic effect on the lives of single-mother households, people with disabilities and pensioners.
“Wool Golden Chance” cooperative members
Since mid-1990s, numerous international programmes aimed to re-train the above mentioned groups were implemented. One of the successful programmes was called “Child and Family Strengthening Project” (CFSP), part of Wool Processing and Marketing Project (WPMP, 2001-2008), which was funded by Norwegian Aid & Development Agency for Cooperation (NORAD). CFSP organised many training schemes; including wool training, which taught skills of wool processing and felt making to people living below the poverty line and single-mother households. In 2002, CFSP offered small loans in order to support home-based producers. Six trainee producers started to work as a team using the loan to buy essential equipments and raw materials. Due to the tremendous work WPMP had done over the years, 6 cooperatives were formed and “Wool Golden Chance” cooperative (WGCC) was one of them.
WGCC workplace
Since its establishment 2006, WGCC has been functioning as a community and a workplace for single-mother households, people with disabilities, people from low-income background and pensioners. As of February 2015, WGCC has 33 members, including 13 single-mother households, 6 persons with varying degrees of disabilities, 6 pensioners and producers from low-income areas of Ulaanbaatar city.
Members at workplace
WGCC products are made from high quality natural materials sourced from Mongolia, by utilising traditional wool processing methods and Mongolian handcraft techniques. They include: felt slippers for all ages, souvenirs, felt carpets, bags and hats. WGCC participated in many trade shows internationally and sells in the UK, Germany, USA and Japan. WGCC was awarded “Green Label” Certificate at Ulaanbaatar Partnership exhibition in 2006, selected as the Runner up at “Goyol 2008” Fashion show in 2008 and its “Cushion Cover Collection” at Small and Middle scale businesses exhibition in 2008. Currently, Ms. I. Bujin oversees the management and marketing of WGCC.
WGCC manager I.Bujin
We are very happy to partner with WGCC! Especially, Terleg LLC will work to support WGCC mission: “To support the socio-economic and cultural needs of our cooperative members and produce the best quality products, which will meet the demand for our valued customers”.
To this day, at least 25% of Mongolia’s population lives a nomadic life, and in doing so, they remain fiercely dependent on open land for survival. However, due to the fluctuation in climate in recent years, changes to the landscape have rendered this lifestyle difficult, if not impossible, to maintain. Over the course of the past 30 years, approximately a quarter of the country has turned to desert, with around 850 lakes and 2,000 rivers having dried out. If this pattern persists, the Mongolian tradition that’s existed for thousands of years will become extinct…read more
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