Stick To Traditional Crafts: The Old Man's Manual Footwear Is A Safe Escort.

In an interview with Fu Xiang shoe factory in the Jia Wa community of Fancheng District, I saw that a plainly dressed sixty year old man was making hand-made leather shoes manually with files and needles.

Gu Tai Jian makes

The leather used is carefully selected.

Because of its good quality and low price, it attracts many customers.

Some customers often come to patronize.

The old man is the boss of this leather shoe factory, Gu Tai Jian.

Gu Taijian, who is 62 years old, is from Shiyan in the 70s.

"At that time, I just graduated from the technical school and assigned to the local labor protection shoes factory in Yunxian. Many people in the village envy me."

Gu Taijian told reporters that in those days, fewer factories in Yunxian and working in factories were what many people dreamed of.

After entering the factory, Gu Tai Jian followed his master to learn how to make shoes.

From tailoring

To repair the last, from design to sample to sewing, did not know how many times the hand has been scratched, only to master this craft.

In 1999, Gu Taijian's labor insurance leather shoes factory was rebuilt.

Gu Taijian thought that he had worked in leather shoes factory for more than 20 years, and he could make shoes.

Gu Taijian told this idea to his wife who was working in Xiangyang, and was strongly supported by his wife.

In March 2000, Gu Tai Jian

It opens business near the Moon Bay Park in Fancheng district.

Gu Tai Jian's factory mainly produces high shoes, low shoes and low tube boots.

"Don't look at these shoes, they are ugly, and the quality is good. Users like it very much."

Gu Taijian said.

In July of this year, in the vicinity of Moon Bay Park, Gu Taijian moved the factory to the later Jia Wa community.

"Making a pair of labor shoes, the cost of labor will be more than ten yuan, plus raw materials, we can say that the profit is negligible.

Hand crafted shoes need not only technology but also strength, and fewer and fewer young people are willing to do this business now.

Gu Taijian said.

Gu Taijian's daughter and son-in-law work in the United States.

Not long ago, my daughter called Gu Taijian to ask him to close the factory and go to the United States.

Gu Taijian disagreed.

Gu Taijian said he wanted to pass on the craft of hand-made leather shoes.

Chinese traditional craft is a kind of craft and technology with distinct national style and local characteristics, which is passed down from generation to generation, with over 100 years of history and complete process flow, made of natural materials.

Professionals engaged in the design and production of traditional crafts are called traditional crafts masters.

The traditional technology is facing a more complicated situation, and some skills are facing the lost situation, mainly due to the complex process, low economic efficiency, and no follow-up. Many policies have been put on the rescue of the state, such as the intangible cultural heritage, and the social media is also vigorously promoting. When more and more people are concerned about it, they are trying to save it in various ways, hoping that these old handicrafts can be passed down from generation to generation.

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1, adhesive shoes Technology: also known as cold sticky process, is the use of adhesive upper, bottom and outsole connected together.

Because of the different material of the upper surface of the upper and sole, the type and nature of the adhesive used are also different, such as neoprene adhesive, polyurethane adhesive, SBS adhesive, etc.

Due to its simple process, short production cycle, high production efficiency, low manufacturing cost, fast variety of color and variety, and easy to expand production, it is the most widely used assembly process in shoe making industry, which accounts for more than 80% of the total volume of shoemaking products.

This technology is the most widely used in leather shoes and sports shoes.

2, sewing shoes Technology: also known as thread sewing technology, sewing thread is used to stitch the upper and sole and other connecting parts together.

The sewing thread used is ramie thread, which has the characteristics of strong strength, low elongation, moisture absorption, quick wetting and high wear resistance.

The technology of sewing shoes is the most widely used in leather shoes. The main products include sewing leather shoes, sewing flanged shoes and sewing shoes.

Its technology has a long history, complex operation and low production efficiency, but the product structure, style and durability are not replaced by other technologies.

Coupled with the development and improvement of machine sewing technology, it is more in line with the needs of modern production and consumption, thus playing an important role in footwear products, and also has auxiliary functions in the process of adhesive shoes, resulting in a sticky sewing process.

3, molding shoe technology: the process of gluing the outsole and upper with the rubber outflow in the process of mold vulcanization and the pressure of mold clamping.

Its outer sole and upper are adhesive bonded to the rubber under high temperature and high pressure, so the molded shoe technology has the characteristics of firm adhesion, uneasy gluing, abrasion resistance and bending resistance.

Due to the long production cycle and slow variety of moulded shoes, it is suitable for large batch production.

The products of labor protection shoes, mountaineering shoes, military police shoes and so on are mostly moulded.

The molding process is a vulcanized process derived from the vulcanization process and used for leather shoes.

4, injection molding shoe technology: also known as Lian Bang injection molding process, is melting plastic injection into the external mold and the upper bound as a whole process.

The materials for the outsole are polyvinyl chloride, thermoplastic polyurethane, thermoplastic rubber and so on.

The technology is completed by automatic feeding, automatic plasticizing, automatic metering, automatic injection, automatic closing and opening and automatic forming. It has the advantages of high production efficiency and automatic production.

It has applications in leather shoes, cloth shoes, sports shoes and plastic shoes.

5, vulcanized shoe technology: it is a process for vulcanizing and forming the vulcanized tank in the vulcanizing tank after gluing the raw film, the welt and the outer Baotou with the upper.

The outer bottom of the process is moulded and moulded.

Because the process is relatively coarse and difficult to control the quality, it usually produces only low-grade products.

In recent years, due to the introduction of foreign advanced production technology, product quality has been greatly improved.

Because vulcanized shoes are comfortable and economical in clothing, and have high efficiency and low cost in production, the technology is still applied in the production of rubber shoes, rubber shoes and leather shoes, and the production volume is large.