Shoes
You need special shoes, when you play Curling. For non-curlers, curlingshoes look like normal shoes. You will see the differences only, when you look more exactly.
1) Normaly, the left shoe has a special coating. This coating is, in most cases, a Teflon coating. Left-handed people have the coating at the right shoe.
2) The right
shoe has a rubber or latex sole. The right shoe must be very adhesive
on the ice. So it is mostly out of rubber or some other adhesive material.
Brooms or Brushes
You can use two
different types of brooms for sweeping. The canadian and the scottish
brooms.
The scottish brooms are wide-spread. Probably because the sweeping effect
is much better with the scottish broom than with the canadian one.
You see a scottish broom in the picture below-left. The guy right is sliding
with a canadian broom.
The old scottish brooms have a brush out of hog's or horse's hair. But the modern brooms have a brush out of a synthetic material (like the 3 brooms below). The synthetic material has the advantage, that it don't loose threads, which could turn away the stone. .
This problem is much bigger with the canadian brooms. You must even renew the canadian broom all 5 or 6 matches. You can use a scottish broom for one season or more.
Stones
Every Curlinghall
owns its own stones. So, not every player must buy stones for himself
(it is prohibited anyway, to use your own stones in a match).
Curlingstones have a hollow-grind at their bottom. Only with this grind,
a stone is able to curl.
Misc
Ther aren't only the equipment above. There exists other
stuff too. So, some players wear gloves or curling-pants. Some skips own
a stop-watch to recognize changings of the ice.
All of these equipments are available in curling-shops.