One Of The World'S Largest Embroidered Wedding Shoes Appeared In Tonglu, Hangzhou.

The largest in the world

There are 3 people in the shoes, and there are exquisite dragon and phoenix patterns on both sides. On the stand, 7 pairs of craftsmen are made in half a year.

Chinese culture has a long history, folk hand embroidery is shining, and handmade embroidered shoes are widely spread.

The embroidered shoes of He village, Tonglu County, Hangzhou, are one of them.

It is reported that the handmade embroidered shoes in the village of He village, Tonglu County, originated from the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. In recent years, the local government has vigorously protected and excavated this traditional handicraft. In 2006, "the village embroidered shoes" were also rated as the first batch of intangible cultural heritages in Hangzhou. In 2008, "the village embroidered shoes" were included in the "Hangzhou cultural and creative industries special fund support project". Local artist Mao Wenyong was also named the first batch of intangible heritage inheritors in Hangzhou.

In this creative invitational tournament of hand embroidered shoes, there are not only wedding high-heeled shoes with modern fashion design, handmade embroidered shoes, but also "three inch Golden Lotus", "longevity shoes" and "tiger shoe shoes" collected in the Qing Dynasty.

One of them is "embroidered shoes with flowers and riches" embroidered with embroidered embroidered embroidered stitches of Hangzhou embroidery. The stitches are exquisite, lifelike, colorful, and show the dignity, richness and magnificence of peony.

According to the on-site staff, the exhibition is selected from all parts of the province, and is divided into two categories: Folk collections and modern creative design works.

The shortest shoe is only nine centimeters, just three inches long, and the largest pair of embroidered shoes are 2.8 meters long.

It is understood that the world's largest embroidered wedding shoes using the traditional Chinese wedding shoes, shoes, flowers, dragon and Phoenix theme embroidered shoes, 2.8 meters long, 0.87 meters wide, 0.71 meters high, weighing 63 kilograms, shoes can be spacious to lay 2 to 3 people, 7 skilled craftsmen used more than half a year to elaborate, made use of 60 kinds of real silk color line, 10 kinds of needles, spent a total of more than 100 kilograms of related materials.

After a number of experts from the creative, practical, workmanship, material and other aspects of careful and meticulous selection, Tonglu village children tiger head shoes and a number of works won the Zhejiang handmade embroidered shoes creative Invitational gold medal.

"Through this invitational tournament, we intend to make the province's hand-made embroidered shoes exhibit a great exhibition and exchange so that all the folk handmade embroidered shoe artists can have opportunities to communicate with each other and broaden their horizons so as to promote the protection of intangible cultural heritage in the whole province."

Zhang Weidong, curator of the Zhejiang provincial Mass Art Museum, believes that the handmade embroidered shoes invitational tournament will further promote cultural and artistic exchanges among different places, and greatly stimulate the enthusiasm of the local people to inherit and carry forward the cultural heritage.