Xinjiang Turpan Will Repair Leather Shoes Before 1400

A couple of years before 1400.

It has been restored and protected by heritage experts.

The leather shoes were excavated in the ancient tomb group of Astana, Turpan, Xinjiang, known as the "underground museum".

15, the reporter learned from the Turpan Institute of Technology Protection Research Institute, the leather shoe upper is dark brown, shoes 24 cm long, leather shoes tip upturned.

The upper and the sole are cut and sewn at different parts.

Xu Dongliang, deputy director of the Institute, said that the main purpose of the repair is to make leather shoes "durable and durable" through repair.

The restoration is also the first time that Turpan has repaired the unearthed leather products.

The shoe upper is a single layer with 3 layers of sole, all of which are made of leather.

The "rope" used for sewing shoes is animal tendons, but this material still needs further testing.

Due to the scarcity of domestic leather products, the teacher who repairs the leather shoes is Regine Vogel, a specialist in the field of restoration and conservation of the Rhine Museum in Bonn, Germany.

The the Rhine State Museum in Bonn was founded in 1820. The museum has a repair and Protection Laboratory for all kinds of cultural relics such as leather products, textiles and irons.

It is reported that the repair work will take 20 days. The German experts will teach and repair at the same time, imparting the protection methods and repair concepts of the world-class leather products. The cultural relic repairers of the Turpan Institute of Technology Protection Institute have obtained professional guidance and practical experience following Regine Vogel.

During the repair process, the technicians will use the scanning electron microscope and microscopic observation methods to analyze the disease and the existing problems, scientifically formulate the repair plan, and carry out the measures of removing pollutants, dedusting, removing mould, shaping and strengthening the boots.

At present, there are at least three hundred pieces of leather artifacts unearthed in Turpan. There are many problems such as pollution, carbonization, metamorphism and incomplete.

After the repair is successful, the Turpan Institute of Technology Protection Research Institute will repair and protect the leather products excavated from Astana ancient tomb group, Sheng Jin Dian cemetery and ocean sea tomb group.

The ancient tombs of Astana are located about 40 kilometers southeast of Turpan, and Gucheng, south of Gao Chang, is a public cemetery of the residents from the Western Jin Dynasty to the Gao Chang City in the Tang Dynasty.

Because the climate of the cemetery is very dry, the water level of the cemetery is more than 20 meters from the ground, and the tombs are generally between 3 and 5 meters underground. This makes many relics and ancient corpses that are afraid of damp and rotten in the tomb remain intact.