How to Weave Straw Shoes Yongjia Folk Traditional Skills Hand-woven Straw Shoes Tools and Steps Weaving Methods of Straw Shoes

How to weave straw sandals How to weave straw sandals: Although no one wears straw sandals now, most of our soldiers wear straw sandals when the Red Army crosses the grassland and turns over the snow-capped mountains. Yongjia folk traditional skills hand-woven sandals tools and steps teach you how to weave sandals. Straw sandals originated in Shang and Zhou Dynasties: "I went through the customs" and wore straw sandals on my feet, which has been passed down to this day. Straw sandals are light, exquisite, economical and practical. It is a tool worn by working people to protect their feet when they go up the mountain to cut wood and work in the fields. It is light and comfortable to wear, and it also saves money. In the past, you could buy a pair of straw sandals for ten cents, and nanxi river also wore straw sandals for rafting and punting. Straw sandals are common, but they are also complicated and exquisite to make. There is a set of special tools for straw sandals: straw sandals rake, straw sandals rake, straw sandals hammer and straw sandals shoulder. The raw materials of straw sandals are twisted sugarcane and straw. "Straw sandal climbing" has seven wooden teeth on a rectangular board, with a tall and big round tooth in the middle, like a trumpet-shaped curved spire. There are three square teeth on the left and right, and a U-shaped hook is connected to the rectangular wood, which is hooked on the four-foot board to write the head when playing straw sandals, thus fixing the main tool for "saving" straw sandals (winding cane warp). "Playing straw sandals" is used to play straw and straw sandals for modeling; "Straw Shoe Rake" is a flat wooden strip with four teeth, which is round at the top and flat at the bottom, and is used to tightly weave straw; The "straw sandals shoulder" is made of a square wood, and the top shoulder of the "straw sandals" is sawn into a four-stage trapezoidal sawtooth shape. After the work is completed, select materials; Screen out a bundle of fresh and white thousand rice stalks (straws), firmly grasp them with both hands, pat them on the stone steps, throw away rice clothes and sundries, pat them soft, and make them easy to arrange. Then take the twisted hemp and rub the sandals for later use. With enough material, you can start playing with sandals. Take two twisted linen sandals, the length of which is one "person" long (the length of one's hands stretched straight). Fold a straw sandal into two straw sandals, and make a circle in the center of the fold, which is the straw sandal nose. Pass a rope through the nose ring of straw sandals and tie it around your waist. Take "sandals to climb" and hook it at one end of a four-foot wooden stool. People sit at the other end of the stool, and the head of the stool should be on the top wall to prevent the wooden stool from slipping backwards when the straw sandals are tightened backwards. I started hitting the straw sandals on the nose. Twisting the twine one by one in two shoe provinces (warps), and when the twine reaches three fingers, hanging two straw sandals on the left and right first and third wooden teeth of the straw sandals, pulling back the rope ends at the other ends of the other straw sandals, and inserting the rope ends into different ends of the straw sandals for fixation. From two sandals to four sandals. The most important link is that the length of straw sandals depends on the length of four straw sandals from the nose of straw sandals to the climbing teeth of straw sandals, taking the length of one's forearm as the standard. It can fit the length of shoes. Next, take the semi-wet straw sprayed with water and put it on the upper and lower parts of the four shoes. Tighten the straw in your own direction every time you wear it. When wearing, the straw (warping) on both sides should be tightened, and when wearing, the two shoes should save straw and relax. The straw sandals woven in this way are firm, soft and comfortable to wear, and the front is changed from small to large. The width and shape of shoes are determined by placing them on the six teeth of sandals. Sandals are worn on the outermost teeth, and the width of shoes is increased. The length of the front of the sandals is woven to the horizontal width of one hand, and the sandals are buckled on the left and right sandals. Tie it with hemp thread, make two buttons with different lengths, make the front shoe buttons, and then continue to weave with straw, inserting straw every time. The length of the shoe is five fingers wide, and two straw shoe buttons (rear shoe buttons) are made on the left and right sides of the shoe with twining hemp. After weaving, the length of the shoe root reaches four fingers wide, and the shoe dart (warp thread) passes through the inner two teeth from the outer teeth of the straw sandals climbing. Four straw sandals darts (warp) were changed into two straw sandals darts (warp) for weaving, the 2-inch-long back root was woven, and the remaining two straw sandals were knotted. Then beat the straw sandals with a shoe hammer to make them soft and modify the shoe type until they are satisfied. Fasten the two sandals at the back on the buckles of the sandals. Then take two hemp ropes through the nose of the sandals, so that they can be tied when wearing shoes, and they become a complete pair of sandals. Folk sandals are also woven with old cloth and straw, which are softer, more comfortable and more durable than straw. According to folklore, this kind of straw sandals was knitted by a woman. If the straw sandals are not cut off, it will be very difficult for women to get pregnant and have children in the future, so they all cut off a straw sandals to ward off evil spirits. Although a pair of sandals is so simple, it is really not easy to make. There is also an interesting riddle among Yongjia people: four-legged dwelling, like Fan Beiji. I hung up and left, and I put it down again.