Straw Shoe Weaving Tutorial

Materials needed:

Paper tubes, scissors, glue, knitting needles wool, twine, colorless acrylic paint and so on.

1, first of all, will show how to do the paper tube, you can use old books, scrap newspaper or A4 paper, rolled into a paper tube.

2, start weaving shoes, first three paper tubes as a base, and then add the paper tube cross top and bottom stacked side by side.

3, the last paper tube began to weave along the side-by-side of the paper tube two by two cross up and down.

4, the paper tube is almost finished when the paper tube will add glue to connect the new paper tube, continue to weave.

5, weaving to the end of the fourth circle, the sole is finished.

6, then the paper tube up, weaving.

7. After two rounds of weaving, mark the center tube and weave the heel.

8, the front of the straw shoe than the heel of a circle.

9, the paper tube will be a good finish.

10, cut off the excess paper tube and give the paper tube straw shoes a coat of clear lacquer to make the straw shoes look smooth.

Difference between Chinese knot straw sandals and traditional straw sandals:

Traditional straw sandals are usually one-shot, workshop-style weaving. First rubbed a good brown rope or hemp rope, braided ear (i.e., short brown rope twisted into a double stranded line), take a handful of good glutinous cereal grass, whacking soft, put the bench inverted, four feet to the sky, set on the straw shoe stick, you can sit up to braid the straw shoe, which is called the brown ear shoes.

Polite people, do not use straw, with hemp to prepare, known as the hemp ear shoes, this shoe is both lightweight, soft, and durable, wear not back to sweat, very comfortable.　　

Chinese knot straw shoes are molded many times and produced in factories; while traditional straw shoes have a single variety and an old-fashioned shape, Chinese knot straw shoes have many varieties and a new and beautiful shape.

Chinese knot straw shoes are skillfully blended with Chinese knot craft, and more importantly, the traditional straw shoes have been turned into casual and fashionable straw shoes for the "street walking and dashing family".