Old Shoemaker Yu Uncle Made 2.2 Meters Long 40 Kilograms Of Heavy Shoes.

It is 2.2 meters long, 0.9 meters high and weighs 40 kilograms. This giant shoe comes from 81 year old Yu Zong Yan's hand. Yu took 8 months to complete this masterpiece.

　 40 kilograms of giant shoes can lie down.

Yesterday, reporters saw him in the home of Uncle Yu. Giant shoes 。 The surface of the giant shoe is wrapped in red and white leather. It is an enlarged version of champagne shoes. Uncle Yu measured the tape on the spot. The shoes were 2.2 meters long, 0.9 meters high and 0.8 meters wide, and the leather shoes were over 400 yards according to the domestic shoe size code.

The huge shoe cost 80 square feet of leather and the weight of the whole shoe reached 40 kilograms. Giant shoe Shoe chamber The mouth is about 0.6 meters in diameter, and a man who is 1.75 meters tall can well get into the muzzle and lie in it. Yu said that the shoes were full leather material, and the bottom of the chamber was 15 kilograms of leather. The sole used 20 kilograms of leather. Only 30 heels of leather were sewn on the heels, and the whole hand was sewn with thread. The wear resistance was not a problem for 100 years.

250 kilograms of plaster for shoe last

Want to make a complete leather shoes Shoe last must be done first. Approaching Mr. Yu's workroom, uncle Yu took a piece of tarpaulin from the corner. A white shoe last similar to the size of the giant shoe in the living room was at least 10 times larger than the last shoe last.

This shoe last weighs 150 kilograms, all made of gypsum, which consumes 250 kilograms of gypsum. At first, uncle Yu went to three shoe last factories in the city, and the other side heard that such a big shoe last meant that they could not get such a big job. After 5 months, uncle Yu actually made the shoe last.

　 He made 75 yards of shoes for the giant.

Speaking of making giant shoes, uncle Yu is not the first time. Around 2003, the giant Wang Fengjun, who was over 2.5 meters tall, came to Tianjin. At that time, I heard that Wang Fengjun had difficulty wearing shoes. Uncle Yu took the initiative to find Wang Fengjun with his ruler, pen and tools. He volunteered to make shoes for him. It only took 8 days to make a pair of 75 yards of giant shoes. Wang Fengjun himself went to Yu's family to try on shoes and put on new shoes. Wang Fengjun was very happy and said he could finally have a pair of decent leather shoes.

Wang Fengjun succeeded in making shoes. Yu discovered his potential to make giant shoes, and plans to make a bigger shoe. It took 5 months to make a shoe last, and it took 3 months to sew the leather shoes. It took 8 months altogether, and a more than 400 yards of champagne shoes were made. He told reporters that he had made shoes from the 15 year old apprenticeship, and he had been insisting on manual sewing of leather shoes for 60 years. Although he received many apprentice, they finished their own works and built their own shoes with advanced production lines. He wanted to create this huge shoe to arouse people's attention to traditional manual sewing technology and pass it on.