Handmade Leather Shoemaker: Craft Or Lost

Less than P, fifty or sixty years old and even earlier, the custom made leather a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes < /a > has been with them for a period of time. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer shops for leather shoes in Yibin.

In September 16th, the reporter interviewed Liu Shifu, who was engaged in customized leather shoes business.

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< p > Liu has been making hand-made leather shoes for over 20 years. He and his wife have opened a small shoe shop in Yongquan street of the city. The shop is generally in business. According to master Liu, the income is just enough for life, but it wins in freedom.

Liu's master's "freedom" is like that. Master Liu and his wife open shop at 8:30 every morning and close at 9 in the evening. During this time, they always have a person to stay in the store, receive customers and make shoes.

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< p > "open shop is like this, more work and more gains, no one can not shirk shop."

Master Liu said that the monthly rent, water and electricity and other expenses of the shop were over 2000 yuan, while making a pair of leather shoes priced at 100 yuan, he could earn more than 20 yuan.

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< p > "a pair of ordinary" a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/" > custom shoes < /a "sells for about 50 yuan, and a good point of shoes can be sold to more than 100 yuan.

Sometimes, when I spend three days making a pair of shoes, I can only earn 10 yuan.

Master Liu said.

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< p > make a pair of hand-made leather shoes, from customers to tell the size, choose leather shoes style to make leather shoes, it will take three or four days.

Master Liu said that nowadays most of the custom-made leather shoes are elderly people, or people with special feet sizes. Young people seldom customize them.

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< p > "custom-made leather shoes are not many styles, customers can only choose in the sample shoes provided by us, many young people do not like these old fashioned styles.

There used to be many small shops for leather shoes in this street, but now there are fewer and fewer.

Master Liu said.

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< p > Liu told reporters that custom shoes were once touted as a handicraft, but now this line has become a "cool door".

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< p > "after all, the shoes produced by the factory assembly line are more and more fast, which has a great impact on us.

Of course, there are many changes in this line. For example, before we even need to make our own shoes, we need to go to the factory to order.

High technology has advantages and disadvantages to our traditional technology. "

Master Liu said.

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< p > Master Liu has one child and one daughter, and two of them are adults.

When asked who inherited this skill, Liu's expression was somewhat helpless.

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< p > "neither of them is willing to do this business.

It is hard to make leather shoes, and in the process of making it, I have been in contact with unhealthy colloid products for a long time. Now, many large a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/" shoes factory < /a > all of my age people are working, and young people usually don't go.

Master Liu said.

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< p > "I also want to take a few years to rest."

Master Liu said.

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