About

Ou Skaapse is a sole proprietor, self-owned business born from a love of working with natural materials and a need to luxuriate in comfort in front of a roaring fire with my family and cats!

Ou Skaapse slippers are crafted from family patterns that have been fine tuned over the decades to provide you with the best looking, most comfortable sheepskin slippers that you will ever wear!

The name Ou Skaapse was inspired by the famous mountain pass in Cape Town, Ou Kaapse Weg, which traverses the Steenberg mountains and Silvermine Reserve. Our house looks out over this mountain range and when waking up on a cold winter’s morning, the first thing one does is peer out of the window towards the mountains. If the mountains are shrouded in clouds, mist and rain, then I know that it is a “slipper weather day”!