Hand made road shoes retain the ancestral crafts and spirit

Hand-made road shoes, retain the ancestral crafts and spirit Hubei folk arts applied to appreciate

Shoes, women, young and old take for daily necessities. Shoes, or shoe factory is a professional workshop. Piece by piece rag, one layer after layer of sticky cloth shoe, is called the "shell". Awl hole needle thread needle needle nose to layer on the Nano, is called the "sole", with a small needle carefully to sew a horseshoe-like, is called the "sew uppers" ... ... Making shoes in China for more than 3,000 years of history, 670 when the material deprivation of the last century, rural families the memory has disappeared in the dazzling array of handmade shoes in shoe stores, and now author in huili County, Sichuan province, Baiyun Temple see –

Bamboo brush dipped in a basin in the hands of starched cloth, labeled as cloth, dipped in slurry, fitted ... ... In huili County, Baiyun Temple, an Kun Tao opened the memories of the author's long-standing: when I was a grandma shoe scene. "Long, what do you do? "" Make shoes. "" Do not bother you? So not worth it! "The era of surplus handmade shoes, with respect to the author. "Our shoes here, except to wear themselves, but also to those who seek to come to order people to do. "Long and I chatted up.

Road shoes: clean wherever you

Cloth shoe long Zhang, she says, Taoist priests dress has strict rules, in practice things such as only you can wear purple Buddhist, usually word of all wear blue clothing and shoes must wear shoes made of cloth road, namely face pair of shoes and ten shoes.

Double face shoes are black, round mouth, vamp with two raised an issue, splitting the vamp, hence the name. Double face two buliangzi shoes, making it cumbersome, but it represents the Taoist culture's "two meters" (Chi Yin-Yang instrument). This instrument can give birth to gossip, meaning walking eight.

Cross shoes shoes is round, black upper fabric, lining is white, trimmed to black and white, formed 5 white bar pattern on each side, a total of 10, hence the name ten shoes. 5 white pattern representative of Taoist culture, "Wu Xing", a total of 10 should be "Nosy nine, all the ten directions". The patterned edge to seam, sew up not only labour-intensive, fix easy crepe.

Road shoes are consistent with its traditional cloth shoes in the production process, but on the upper road shoes have their own cultural meaning. Road shoes are made of black cloth, which is black and white elements follow the diagram, another long Ou Daochang also has made a common sense explanation: green and white shoes, go blameless way.

Shoes: heritage of generations

Tell Ou Dao long two-Kun and Zhang Daochang road, road shoes after they joined the last two years to learn. When I first joined, their shoes are from Bai Yunan Tong an leaves more than 60 kilometres away in the Shoemaker made, when Shoemaker is a ripe old age, poor health, unsustainable. So they Shoemaker's shoe loft, began to make my own shoes. Tried a few after the double, they mastered the method of making road shoes, appropriate changes to the traditional shoe making process.

The two Taoist priests are 50 years old, who more than 10 years old when he followed the adults learn to stitch soles, shoes. At that time, women in rural home when winter would have to "shell" and the lower shoe, collective labor field to take rest and are busy teams during the meeting time to stitch soles, sew uppers, rushed the whole family wearing cloth shoes. Women have a good sewing, always respected by neighbors.

With the development of society, people's material life and wealth, is having a hard time, clothes old Tim, shoes need to be bought, style more confusing, in addition to outside the PIN button, women no longer feel almost kind of sewing.

Learned do road shoes Hou, two bit Kun road sentiment many, "people Shang has points age, added has some experience Hou, on compared traditional, and nostalgia, himself hands-on do road shoes, a is know has thrift, on moral by in the of" Sambo "one of--" thrift "has has effective of experience," thrift so can wide "; II is learned has Thanksgiving, do shoes always let people reminds predecessors people a a people do shoes to several children wear of easily; again has is keep root, has traditional is modern, ancient said ' a porridge a rice, dang thought to at easily; half silk half wisp of, Constant reading difficult material. ' Do not know the previous generation tradition, lilaysi give me a traditional education for next generation? "

Technology: core environmental protection

Road shoes with thousand-layer Nanowire, and though life is not long, and fear to wet, soft but not grinding foot, breathe not Athlete's foot, wearing more comfortable. Production process no chemical glue, slip-proof, noise and will not scratch the floor.

"Making a pair of shoes, tied needle required long-term consumption? "Long replied:" thousand-stitch line. "A rough estimate, soles with more than 20 floors, Geithner need to consume two-arm length of twine 12-14, about 20-25 m, pin more than 1000 stitches, takes 3-5 days to complete.

Layer bottom of shoes produced, go through the following process:

1. the cloth shoe: winter cotton with good quality Neem paste paste layers on a flat table or wooden boards, dry vastness of nature reserve.

Chinaberry children mature in the winter, leaves fall dry, easy to stick down harvesting, fruit soaked with hot water, Peel, exposed flesh, hand packed into a slurry, paste.

Neem Neem plant, the alias Ku Ling, Ling Zi, neem, Jin Lingzi, green tree. Distributed in Sichuan and other provinces. Melia azedarach fruit poisonous, containing toosendanin triterpenoid compounds, a variety of four-ring, insecticidal, antibacterial effect, made of cloth shoe, hard line without needles, and toughness, and worms.

Winter good cloth shoe easy to dry.

2. Mahjong line. Will home species of hemp or in market Shang buy back of Ma skin, with water Cook, to Ma of rubber sex, makes Ma became soft, added melon tree or corn core burning Hou of stove gray soaking, let its whitening, dry Hou, again slowly to tore into for made Twine of fine silk, with Ma handlebar hemp thread twist tight, then again will its fold, combined, with Ma car twist into twist sample of twine. Mahjong line is a skill, the thickness of the Twine to a uniform, can't be a knot in the Middle, because knots will affect the speed and quality of satisfied soles.

3. Sample: maintained by individual foot length, full width ground pattern and cut a piece of peanut shell-like cloth shoe soles and Horseshoe-like upper.

4. Nadi: with twine sewed soles. Overlapping multiple cloth shoe, using the awl holes, large nostrils needle thread connection requires a stitch in intervals of 0.5 cm per square inch sole na 81 above. PIN code request distribution, thread a needle by hand tightening. This is the sole guarantee of appearance and chipboard.

5. End of the hammer: na good soles with a hammer hammer hammer head, preventing head feet and sole shapes fit, not twisted.

6. Sewing help: cloth shoe-like overlapping layer of white cloth, surface layer of green cloth, fine-needle stitched together.

7. package: each piece of sole and upper with a new band edges on the package.

8. end of circle: with twine along the four sides glued soles after stitching. This procedure determines the design strength of the shoe, require sutures, round needle and thread tight joints right and is therefore an important part of all operations.

These processes, the most unique is the first step. Two long making shoes from mining the local Neem paste, cloth shoe dense texture, so older people find their life of shoes from far and near, free time to spare, without the fear of insects.

They seriously do clean life philosophy has won the people's trust, and perfect shoes, not only reproduce the ancestral crafts, heritage of the ancestors of natural harmony, for their diligence, to others a friendly spirit.

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