Traditional Handicraft Thomas Keil Handmade Leather Shoes

With the development of science and technology, products are constantly starting to industrialize, more and more people begin to choose cheap industrial products, but the meaning behind traditional handicraft is hard to be replaced. leather shoes The same is true. Thomas Keil is one of the few handcraftsmen who can insist on making hand-made leather shoes, and also set up their own workshops.

　　 Thomas Keil It's from Germany. Handmade leather shoes In his studio, we can see every link in the production of hand-made leather shoes. His great grandfather used to be a leather shoemaker, and this handicraft once withered after his death. Years later, Thomas Keil decided to reclaim hand-made leather shoes and let his great grandfather's spirit and skills continue. Before he set up his own studio, he learned from a Hungarian leather shoe maker and built his own leather shoes production studio in Hamburg through continuous learning and practice.

When we walk into the studio of Thomas Keil, we can see an old workbench, a stool, and an old leather sofa. He loved this traditional handicraft very much. Before every production, he carefully measured the size of each foot, and then made shoes and soles on the shoe last. The production of each pair of shoes takes about three months. During this period, you can pick the color you like and look at the shoes you are looking forward to for a long time.

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In 2014, although the shoe market in China showed an increase, from the data of production, the growth rate was not large, or it was related to the shutting down of enterprises around the country. It is reported that there are three main reasons for shutting down enterprises.

First, eliminate backward production capacity. Shutting down unqualified shoe enterprises is the only way for industrial transformation and upgrading. In recent years, local governments have been speeding up the elimination of backward production capacity and vigorously supporting the transformation and upgrading of enterprises. Affected by this, apart from Dongguan, other parts of the Pearl River Delta region, as well as Zhejiang Wenzhou, Fujian Jinjiang and other shoe making bases are in the throes of industrial transformation and upgrading. Enterprises are being transferred or shut down from time to time.

From a long-term perspective, the shutting down of enterprises is inseparable from the transformation of China's economy. Eliminating backward enterprises is the main keynote of optimizing industrial development. Shutting down is for small and micro enterprises, many small and micro enterprises believe in "contentment and happiness". This kind of "small wealth and impatience" idea becomes the shackle of the development of imprisonment. Let small and micro enterprises think that equipment renewal, technology upgrading and product replacement are not important, and maintaining the status quo is the fundamental. Therefore, enterprises are not only difficult to be bigger and stronger, but also go step by step towards the edge of industrial elimination.

The two is the increasing cost of labor. With the continuous development of China's economy, the rising cost of labor has become a problem that shoe enterprises must face. In the same working environment, the cost of employing a worker in our country is much higher than that of workers in Southeast Asian countries.

The rapid rise of human cost in China is closely related to the improvement of people's living standard. As the "world factory", the mainland of China is losing the absolute advantage of low labor cost in the past. The rigid rise of labor costs restricts the development of most small and micro enterprises. Therefore, some manufacturing industries at the bottom of the industrial chain want to use the "go global" strategy to reduce costs.

The three is industrial transfer. Along with the rising cost of land, labor and raw materials, some shoe companies have shifted their footwear factories to inland areas where land costs and labor costs are relatively low, so as to maximize cost savings to maintain profitability. Many shoe companies are turning their attention to the relatively backward regions such as Southeast Asia, and a number of foreign enterprises are moving back to their own development.

It is reported that in the sports shoes manufacturing industry, its position is only once more than that of Baochang group, which mainly produces brand sports shoes such as Nike (NIKE) and NB (New NB). Its production layout is also changing obviously. Originally, two factories in Shenzhen add up to 3-4 workers, and now the drama has been reduced to thousands of people. The production line has gradually shifted to Huizhou Boluo in the northeastern part of the Pearl River Delta and Heyuan in Northeast Guangdong. However, the development of the shoe industry in Southeast Asia is faster, and the number of factories in Vietnam has reached 5-6.