The name is given of espardenya to a footwear, with sole of hemp or esparto, which covers more or less the top part of the foot with llenc, tapes or cords; these also can be of esparto.
(Gautier, Teofilo, observed to his book ” Trip for España.1920, that the rubber-soled slippers ” were holding themselves by means of tapes, as the Greek coturnos “)
Espardenyes.
Miquel Rovira.
