Leather culture, origin history

The earliest northern nomadic people use the animal fur obtained by hunting for warmth and living, however, the raw skin is easy to rot, not durable storage, not durable. In order to make the fur more durable and long-lasting, the original nomads used stones to make it soft, and then gradually developed the technology to make the skin become soft.

This technology to deal with leather from the date of birth, can be described as a progress of mankind, the history of the evolution of art. With the evolution of civilization has come a long way in the history of the evolution of leather.?

Northern China's nomadic "leather pouch pot" modeling was once absorbed by the Song and Liao period porcelain and respected, from the porcelain leather pouch pot we can see that period of leather objects modeling has reached a certain aesthetic height. From then on in the life of mankind began to appear a variety of leather products, such as leather made of bags, transportation, maps, houses, clothing, hats, shoes, decorations and so on.

After the development of human civilization, human beings of course will not stay in the simple and bulky leather products, they began to add patterns on the leather products to make it more visually beautiful. Afterwards in the continuous labor and life evolved production skills also began to design, began the earliest leather art design.

Leather in the primitive period has an irreplaceable position, which is also at that time human beings on the leather of the dependence of the result. Simply put, human beings at that time did not have the technology to manufacture fabrics led to the demand and dependence on leather, so at that time leather has made great progress and development.

The production of leather art with real from the initial nomadic horse taming began, horse taming era began with the invention of the caged head, and later there is a horse chewing, herdsmen were able to cross the back of the horse free riding.

The invention of saddles and stirrups liberated the herdsmen's hands to facilitate long-distance migration and four-way warfare. Around the domestication and use of horses, leather craftsmanship. Grassland ancestors learned to tan leather, made of cages, whips, saddles, boots, quivers, sheaths, leather armor, taming clothes, wrestling clothes, and even yurts on the leather decoration.

The production of these leather goods are attached to the appropriate artistic skills, both practical function, but also has aesthetic value. Popular for hundreds of years of carved saddles, that can be said to be a typical representative of traditional leather technology.

In the long river of leather art practice in Inner Mongolia, the continuous development and inheritance, Inner Mongolia leather art from the use of leather modeling to the diversity of artistic creation, it is rooted in the steppe people rely on the development of hunting, animal husbandry economy, cohesion of the steppe people's ingenuity, thousands of years for the steppe people's production, life services, but also become the steppe culture of a form of artistic expression.

Leather art in Mongolia has a pivotal position in the life of the Mongolian people, in the life of the herdsmen can be seen everywhere made of leather necessities and decorations. With the development of economy, leather modeling art contains the artistic vitality and aesthetic value more and more people's attention and concern, and shows its development potential and momentum.

In order to inherit and promote this ancient art, recognize the economic and artistic value of leather art is to protect and promote leather art.

Expanded information:

One, the historical development

Leather industry covers tanning, shoemaking, leather garments, leather parts, fur and its products and other main industries, as well as leather chemicals, leather hardware, leather machinery, auxiliary materials and other supporting industries. Upstream and downstream correlation is high, rely on the market pull, product evergreen, set foreign exchange, rich people, employment as one of the characteristics.

China leather industry, after adjusting and optimizing the structure, in the country has initially formed a number of specialization division of labor clear, outstanding characteristics, to pull the local economy plays a pivotal role in the leather production characteristics of the region and professional market. Their formation, laid the foundation for the development of China's leather industry.

In the increasingly competitive market environment, China's leather industry can make such achievements is not easy, but also proved the vitality of China's leather industry and strong. Leather and its products market potential is very large, the global total demand for leather is about 100 million square meters, equivalent to 300 million pieces of cowhide (standard leather) production, China's leather production is equivalent to nearly 70 million pieces of standard leather, accounting for about 23.33% of the global leather production.

But, China's leather footwear and its related industries should also be squarely in the 21st century, we also have deficiencies in many areas, although China is the world's leather production powerhouse, but not a leather powerhouse, in terms of quality, value is still in a disadvantaged position, need to be honed and improved in this market environment.

Two, the application field

The total consumption of leather has more than half of the application to do shoes material. Secondly, bags, bags, sports equipment, clothes, belts, industrial use, etc. are continuously using leather. Leather for carving leather needs bright although rapid increase, but the overall seems to be really a little bit only. Most of these carving leather is cowhide, accounted for 7 ~ 8% of the leather raw material. But these leather needs and leather supply is not consistent.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Leather Art

Baidu Encyclopedia - Leather