Morrigan Full-Woven Oxford for Men - Handmade Basket-Weave Leather Dress Shoes

Morrigan is the most technically demanding shoe in the Melodiapelle catalogue. The entire upper - vamp, quarters and collar - is woven by hand from fine strips of full-grain leather in a diagonal chevron pattern, with no plain leather visible anywhere. Because each strip is cut to a uniform width and interlaced individually, a single pair takes several times longer to close than a standard Oxford, and the depth of the leather gives the weave a dimensional quality that appears to move as you walk.

It is finished on a closed Oxford platform with Goodyear hand-welted construction and a veg-tanned leather outsole. This is not a first pair of men's formal leather shoes; it is the pair you buy once the basics are covered and you want something no machine can reproduce. Weddings, receptions, evening events - anywhere the shoe is allowed to be the most interesting thing you are wearing.