Qiao Hand embroidered the road of happiness

The silk twisted into a thread, and the hand was embroidered with flowers. Walking into the mother -in -law of Xiazhuang Town, Shexian County made a craftsmanship cooperative in Shandong Province, I saw a group of women sitting around, and was embroidered with various patterns on a cloth upper.

"This is a woman in our village. Everyone makes handmade shoes together." Li Lingtian, the head of the Shandong Yixian handicraft cooperative, said that in China, cloth shoes have a long history of more than 3,000 years. As early as the 1970s and 1980s, almost all labor women in rural households made handmade cloth shoes.

However, with the in -depth development of industrial civilization, mechanized production soon swept the market tide, and many handicraft products "retreat". Handmade shoes are no exception, so rural women no longer make production and buy finished shoes.

Fashion is a reincarnation. In recent years, thanks to the rise of retro style and the enhancement of people's awareness, many handicrafts regain their craftsmanship and come back to the market again, kill back to the market in the innovation of the times, and win back to the love of the masses with high -quality products. Essence While meeting the needs of handicrafts to make a living, it also spreads various traditional and excellent skills.

"When I was a kid, I watched my family getting started with myself. In this way, I slowly learned to make cloth shoes." Mentioning how to enter the "handicraft" ranks, Li Lingtian talked about the memory he learned to make.

It turned out that Li Lingtian's grandma and mother would make handmade shoes. After leisurely, the two always picked up the bench and came to the old tree in the yard. Draw shoes, nathered soles, sewing shoes ... This scene has long been Li Lingtian's beautiful and warm memories of his young age.

At the end of 2017, with the support of the China Women's Development Foundation, the Yixian Women's Federation, the Yixian Cultural, Sports and Television Bureau, and the party committee and government of Xiazhuang Town, the mother established the Shandong Yixian handicraft cooperative.

Due to his excellent production technology and the motivation to dare to fight hard, Li Lingtian became the leader of this cooperative. She told reporters: "I took the women in the village to re -employer at the door of the home of the home, which can increase income and make this craft pass."

Just do it and do it down -to -earth. Since the establishment of the cooperative, Li Lingtian has led the big guy to apply for the production of thousands of bottom -bottomed shoes, handmade embroidery county -level non -heritage inheritance projects, organizes more than 100 techniques to train nearly a thousand people in rural women. "Now, our products have also been sold throughout the country." Li Lingtian said that because handmade cloth shoes have unique quality, when it goes to the market, many people will buy it.

What is this unique quality? In this regard, Li Lingtian introduced that their handmade cloth shoes include thousands of bottoms and hemp ropes. No matter which kind of sole is made, the raw material of hemp rope will be used, and the shoes made with hemp rope have the characteristics of sweating, good breathability, and raising feet. Therefore, after many customers buy This handmade shoes.

"When we make handmade cloth shoes, we always consider the needs of customers." Li Lingtian told reporters that they also added embroidery elements in the production of shoes in their hands. In this way, handmade cloth shoes are more exquisite and can attract customers' attention more.

As for embroidery, this kind of embroidered acupuncture line is pierced on the fabric to pierce the needle, and it is one of the excellent national traditional craftsmanship that has been circulating for more than 3,000 years in my country for more than 3,000 years. When it is used on handmade cloth shoes, two inheritance of cloth shoes and embroidery skills are achieved.

"Most of our embroidered patterns are fixed, and everyone is embroidered. From the perspective of sale, there are several pathets such as swallows, ginkgo leaves, and butterflies sell well." Li Lingtian said that there are also some embroidered embroidered. The patterns are customers to customize. At this time, they will embroidery according to the needs of customers.

Embroidery is still a fine work. In the mother's manufacturing Shandong Yixian handicraft cooperative, this part of the work is borne by young women 30 or 40 years old. "We are embroidered by hand, but when embroidery, we must also ensure that the size of the needle is uniform and not too rough, otherwise it will deform after cleaning later." Li Lingtian said that making shoes is different from making clothes. It is very accurate.

In addition to the 30 or 40 -year -old women work in her mother's manufacturing Shandong Hand County Handicraft Cooperative, there are also women in their sixties who work nearby. "We have learned to make shoes when we were young. Now I am older, and I do n’t have a suitable job when I go out to work. I just do this in the village." Some women who came to work told reporters that when they were on shoes and soles, they were You can also take it home to do it.

The reporter learned that the process of making handmade shoes is tedious and meticulous, with many processes such as cutting, embroidery, and synthesis. It seems simple, but in fact, every step is sloppy. "It's all skills in it." Li Lingtian told reporters that in order to make better handmade cloth shoes, she often went to study outside and kept polishing the production skills of handmade cloth shoes.

In fact, it is far more than that. Li Lingtian also took the handmade cloth shoes products of the cooperative to go out. By participating in the Cultural Fair and Expo, he opened the popularity of handmade cloth shoes and obtained more orders.

It is true that good products can only have a steady stream of vitality only when they go out. Li Lingtian knows this. In her daily operations, she also actively acts on the scenic spots, tried to live broadcasts, and focuses on opening the market in various ways.

Efforts will be harvested.Today, the mother -in -law's hard -working and sweaty mother created the handmade cloth shoes of the Shandong Yixian handicraft cooperatives.The "fingertip skills" that have been soaked in the years also brought a considerable "fingertip economy" to the local people."In the future, I will not forget my original intention, continue to inherit this skill, continue to make handmade shoes, and lead the women in the village to go to a good day." Li Lingtian said.(Rizhao Newspaper All Media Reporter Rong Xinxin)

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