What is the process of making traditional handmade cloth shoes?
the first traditional manufacturing process of step-by-step manual health cloth shoes: home-spun cotton yarn. Choose high-quality cotton, and the cotton thread and cotton cloth used in the soles of cloth shoes are all made of newly-harvested cotton in Bailizhou Town, a big cotton-producing town in China, which is known as "Silver Island". The cotton yarn is spun with a home-made spinning wheel, and hand spinning is different from modern machine spinning. Hand-spun yarn is easy to check the thickness and toughness of cotton thread, and can adjust the speed and force in time. Therefore, hand-spun yarn is strong, durable, tough, tensile, beautiful and textured. The second way: home-spun cotton rope. Spinning cotton yarn with soil and combining three strands to make cotton rope. The third way: weaving homespun. Spinning cotton yarn with soil and weaving homespun on the soil loom are all pure cotton homespun. The fourth way: prepare the Yuanbao mat. It is a very important process. Whether the quality of the whole handmade cloth shoes meets the standard has a great relationship with the production of the gold ingot mat. There are strict requirements for the production of Yuanbao mat. First, fresh Yuanbao mat grass must be harvested in the early summer morning of each year when the dew is still wet, and then dried, dried, peeled, pressed, compacted, trimmed and woven. The surface shall be neat, and the grass leaves shall be free from mildew, moth and peculiar smell. Then it is woven according to the traditional process, which requires tight and smooth lines. It will not be a day's work to achieve the requirements. Finally, special silk tissue paper is mounted on the surface of the mat with rice flour paste, and finally compacted. The fifth way: sewing sample bags is a very important inheritance object. Sample bags are usually kept for hundreds of years. Sample bags are sewn with homespun, and there are many interlayers in the bag to facilitate the placement of good shoe samples. The sixth way: draw the bottom sample. Draw samples on the silk tissue paper and the paved homespun of the finished Yuanbao mat according to the size of the sole, and do not leave the shape. The seventh way: Bao Yuanbao mat. Wrap the cut gold ingot mat with fine earth cloth, and wrap it with cotton thread to keep it in shape. Eighth Road: Fill in Melaleuca. Use solid three-layer pure cotton homespun cloth with the same size to make the branding, then use the homespun cloth cut into diagonal strips to wrap the edges, then stack these wrapped foundations layer by layer, add homespun strips between layers to wrap the shoe edges, and then use the homespun cotton to make it well. It must be neat and clean, and the number of layers must not be less than 25, and there must be no wrinkles between the cloth layers. There must be room for bottom edge cutting, and it must be smooth and smooth. Step-by-step Melaleuca is unique in that it is not only exquisite in fabric, exquisite in technology, dense and beautiful in thick layer, neat and clean, but more importantly, it adds a wrapped gold ingot mat interlayer to the traditional practice. Ninth: cut the bottom. Trim the sandwich part of the earth cloth of Melaleuca with scissors along the edge of the wrapped ingot mat. The tenth way: the bottom of the bag is round. Wrap the cut Melaleuca with pure cotton homespun. Eleventh: lock the bottom. When locking the bottom, keep the sole clean. The lines must be crossed and evenly spaced, and the force should be appropriate. The surface of the sole should not be uneven. The bottom of the shoe sole is made by the lock knot process, which requires two steel needles to put on cotton thread, one of which passes through the shoe sole, but it is not completely pulled out, exposing the upper half of the needle, and then the other steel needle passes through the shoe sole completely. This needle is wound around the first needle for two weeks, and the first needle is pulled out, and the cotton thread of the two steel needles is tightened, and the cotton thread of the two steel needles passes through the shoe sole reversely, and then this process is repeated to taper the whole shoe sole. In this way, the tapered shoes are more wear-resistant, and you only need to cut off the thread with scissors when the thread comes out after wearing for a long time, because the special locking process will not make the whole sole off the thread, and the shoes are still strong. The twelfth way: lock the edge. When locking the edge, do not go out of shape, the stitches are arranged neatly and there should be no distortion. Pass the needle thread through the edge of the sole, pull the thread back, pass through the edge of the sole once, wrap the needle thread around the original exposed cotton thread for three times, then pass through the edge of the sole once, pass through the original three circles in turn with the needle thread, tie a knot in one circle, pass through the sole once, and tighten the cotton thread. This is the process of exquisite edge-locking reinforcement. The thirteenth road: the bottom of the bubble. Soak the finished soles with Chinese herbal medicine. Its main raw materials are more than a dozen Chinese herbal medicines such as Cortex Phellodendri, Huang Cen, Flos Caryophylli, Carthami Flos, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Cortex Dictamni Radicis, Borneolum Syntheticum, Herba Asari, Fructus Cnidii, Herba Ephedrae and Herba Menthae. These Chinese herbal medicine liquids are mainly developed to sterilize shoes and prevent foot skin diseases such as tinea pedis. They have no toxic and side effects, and have the effects of promoting blood circulation and relieving fatigue. The fourteenth way: boring the bottom. Cover the soaked soles with a quilt. The fifteenth road: the bottom of the hammer. The sandalwood hammer is used to flatten the sole, so as to soften the sole and make it more comfortable to wear after becoming a shoe. The sixteenth way: lay the bottom. Use high-quality cotton to spread on the soles and sew lining cloth. Article 17: Draw the upper. The fabric is mainly made of 1% wool, and the lining and special lining cloth are all cotton cloth. The fabric and lining cloth are smoothed with polished rice batter, and then the reverse side is bonded with special lining cloth. After air drying, the samples are drawn on the paved upper as required, and it is required not to go away. Article 18: Sewing uppers. After air drying, the excess part of the sample is cut off and then sewn first. Sewing is very important, and it should be straight when walking in a straight line. When turning a corner, you should bend the needle along, not twist it. Roll cloth and edge strip must be pressed tightly, and no looseness or wrinkles can occur when sewing edges. At the same time, keep the strip clean. The nineteenth road: shoes. After the sole and the upper are made separately, connecting them is called a shoe. When the upper is closed, the stitching is called open; What's included in the suture is called a dark patch. Step by step, the traditional manual sewing is used. The shoes made by this method can't see the stitch, and the shoes are more crisp and full. You won't see the needle holes on the whole shoe edge, so the shoes are more beautiful. When upping, we should grasp the matching scale between the upper and the sole, the stitch distance should not be too large, the stitch should not be skewed, and the left and right sides of the upper should be aligned and should not exceed the edge of the shoe. Lane 2: last shoes. A good shoe must be shaped by a last, which is made of wood and aluminum. ) into the cloth shoes, so that the shoes are propped up inside. The specifications of the shoe last must be consistent with the size of the shoe, so that the shoes last will be beautiful and fit. At the same time, it is also a strict check to test whether our shoes are made to a standard. Twenty-first: fumigation with traditional Chinese medicine. Put the last shoes in a traditional Chinese medicine fumigator for 3 to 4 hours. There are more than a dozen Chinese herbal medicines in the traditional Chinese medicine fumigator, and then dry them after the last. Track 22: Quality inspection and packaging. Clean the fumigated shoes with a brush, remove the foreign objects on the uppers and soles, and check the appearance of the shoes, such as the soles, the sewing of the uppers, the last shoes, etc. If it is found that there is a lack of quality, it will be regarded as unqualified and should be returned for processing. The qualified finished products are labeled with numbers and sizes, stamped with qualified seals, and placed with maintenance cards, desiccants and insect repellent pills, which are packed in the packaging box.