A Shoemaker Skilled In Making Small Shoes.

Encounter handmade man

Former Pu Fu City

Without the right bottom, Mr. Cai can only make big soles small when making small shoes.

There are two pairs of small shoes on the shoe cabinet of Mr. Cai. They look smaller than children's shoes, but they are the style of adult shoes. They have high heels and adorned buttons on the upper, which are delicate and lovely.

These little shoes are made by hand by hand, and each pair is unique.

A few days ago, reader Li Xiaojie asked me for help: my grandmother's feet are very small, wearing 32 yards of shoes, often can not buy the right shoes to wear.

Enthusiastic readers will help immediately. Mr. Cai, who lives in Qiao Fu City, is good at making small shoes and can ask him for help.

Originally, Mr. Cai is an old employee of Xiamen leather shoes factory. He has 30 years of experience in shoemaking.

Now, more than 300 of his workmates do not make leather shoes, not to mention "little shoes".

He had a soft spot for small shoes when he was young, because several workmates had little feet, but they couldn't wear them in leather shoes factories. He volunteered to make shoes for them.

The 32 and 33 yards have been made most, and 30 yards have been made. Such shoes are hardly seen on the market.

A more than 50 year old female customer can not buy such small shoes, but can only buy children's shoes. She still finds it difficult to remove the naive decorations on children's shoes.

And the child's shoe width, height, curve are different, how to wear do not fit.

Not long ago, a Tongan woman also found Mr. Cai to make a pair of shoes.

She was 30 years old and very small. Mr. Cai looked at her feet and laughed: wearing a pair of sandals of 35 yards, she quickly dropped off, tied the shoes and feet tightly together with a strap, and set aside a large piece of heel.

Mr. Cai made a pair of fashionable high heels for her.

Mr. Cai's balcony is a small shoe workshop, with all kinds of materials and tools for making shoes.

He said, to make small shoes, you have to customize all kinds of shoe last.

He specially ordered dozens of small shoe last to the factory, with high heels, flat heels and slope heels.

Before he could not get a pair of shoes, he had to manually peel a piece of leather with different sizes and lay it down from top to bottom.

Shoes and buttons are all done by hand.

Each person's preferences are different, and each pair carries out personalized design.

To make a pair of shoes, the process is complex: first, we must make the shoe pattern, the inner model, and then peel, peel, wrap and line.

Brush brush to brush 3 kinds: shoe upper, glue, glue and glue.

After that is the "waist iron", and the middle sole, the shoe wrap, the front cover and the back cover.

To make a sole template, you must slowly cut the curve.

Grinding bottom, bag and...

Clothes may be different from one or two inches. Shoes are different from each other. They feel different when they wear their feet. Therefore, Minnan dialect has the saying that shoes are divided into shirts.

Therefore, we must master the "propriety" when making shoes. It is not easy to make small shoes. The smaller the piece of cowhide is, the more difficult it is to cut it.

Mr. Cai's customers came to him by word of mouth. He can do dozens of pairs a year.