glerups

Why it is renowned

In December 2019 the American travel magazine AFAR called a glerups slipper the world's best travel shoe, after a month in a pair of the felted wool slippers.¹ In November 2025 Outside magazine named them the best wool slippers its reviewer had worn, after six years in the rubber-soled boot.² glerups are sold from Japan and Europe to New Zealand, Canada and the United States, and the company has its own American arm, glerups Inc.³

The story

In the 1970s Nanny Glerup took a felting course and made a pair of felt boots for her husband Ove, who wore them everywhere.³ In 1985 the couple bought Thasdalsgård, a run-down farm in North Jutland, and kept Gotland sheep there; the farm is still the company's headquarters.³ Nanny made slippers from the sheep's wool for family and friends, then registered the company and took it to trade fairs.³ A carding machine from 1936, bought in England and known as The Old Lady, raised production.³ The slippers are felted from New Zealand wool, and a factory in Romania now makes them; rubber soles came on all adult models in 2017.³

What to know it by

• Slip-on³Nanny GlerupFelted wool slipper, the house's main shape
• Shoe and boot³Nanny GlerupHigher felted wool models
• Rubber sole³2017Natural rubber sole on all adult models
• The Old Lady³1936The carding machine behind the felt