Most shoes are oil — knit polyester, EVA foam, polyurethane glues. We work back from the planet. Every Loomstead piece is made from a material that already knows how to return to it.
Spun in New Zealand from ZQ-certified merino — the most rigorous animal-welfare standard in the world. Merino regulates temperature on its own: cool when you're hot, warm when you're not. We knit each upper in a single piece so the cutting floor stays bare.
Our active shoes are knit from FSC-certified eucalyptus pulp — a hardwood that needs no irrigation and recovers each harvest. The fiber spins into a silky, cooling knit, perfect for the kind of run where you forget what you're wearing.
Most foam soles are petroleum — they squeak, they yellow, they last forever in the wrong way. Ours grow in the fields of southern Brazil. The sugarcane sequesters CO₂ as it grows, then becomes the bouncy cushion under your heel.
lower carbon than the average shoe
of orders shipped carbon-neutral
of revenue to regenerate land
Try a pair for 30 days. Wear them, wash them, walk in them — and decide.
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