Ballysea production exhibition

For many people in the world, shoes are nothing more than an accessory to clothing, but for the Italian Ballysea manufacturer, shoes are works of art, and each pair of shoes is transformed into a piece of exquisite artwork by the handmade craftsmen of successive generations. A pair of shoes has to be processed through more than 200 procedures, all of which are handmade; dozens of shoe lasts have to be made before processing a pair of shoes, so as to ensure that people with different walking habits and different physical characteristics can enjoy the comfort and elegance brought by shoes. Italian handmade shoes are extremely complex, usually requiring more than 100 processes, several months, up to 200 processes, a year to produce a pair of good leather shoes. The process is divided into many stages, all of which are supervised by specialized shoemakers who are trained in-house to understand the principles and secrets of shoemaking that have been passed down from generation to generation.

These specialists have been trained in the art of shoemaking for many years. It is these methods that make walking with pleasure and elegance possible, as LI00N0D0 BALYSIKA, the founder of the Ballysea family, says.

Before the shoes are made, the creation and the designer are indispensable; the designer does many different drawings and decides whether to make a relatively classic pair or a more fashionable one. The next step is to make a prototype, the shoe model is based on the design on the drawing, on the prototype, the designer will use a pen to draw on the different styles. Based on the different shoe models, the craftsmen start making lasts.

After there are extraordinary designs and various kinds of lasts, it is the selection of materials, the leather of the upper is very carefully chosen, only 3% of a cowhide can be used on the upper, before cutting the cowhide, the whole skin is projected with professional equipment, and then the best part of the whole skin is cut down.

The lasts are pre-processed by workers, and the last-processing process determines what shape each piece of leather will be and how they will be sewn together, with workers combining each of the small parts of the prepared uppers on the lasts and fixing them to the lasts.

The sewing then begins, and it varies completely depending on whether the shoe can be sole-exchanged or not. If you want to process a pair of shoes with sole changing, you need to add a leather extension strip between the sole and the upper, first sew the upper to the extension strip, and then sew the sole to the extension strip, so that when you change the sole, you won't damage the upper. If you are producing leather shoes that can't be changed, you don't need to use the extensions but just sew the sole to the upper.

There are more than ten procedures to make up the color of the heel and polish the sole. First, the original color leather of the heel is patched to black, then the sole is polished, and the logo, size, width and other data are typed on the sole.

Shoes are also quite elaborate, shoes in the heel position should be added to wear more comfortable and shock-resistant two pieces of sticky sheet, and then on top of the sheepskin lining. The heel is made of a lot of calfskin, and the processed heel is glued to the bottom of the shoe first, and then nailed to the heel with a circle of about seven or eight small nails to fix it.

While going through more than a hundred or even 200 processes, the craftsmen would also scrutinize the newly made

shoes to see how they were shaped, whether there were any skid marks and so on

Balise family? In the manufacturing process, high importance is attached to important aspects such as the model structure (last) of the shoes, which is the guarantee of the excellent quality of its products. Most importantly, these famous shoe manufacturers design according to different human characteristics and walking habits, combined with ergonomics, with dozens of sizes available for each model. Mr. Salvatore Ferragamo researched and discovered the secret of making shoes more comfortable to wear. When he studied ergonomics in the United States, he made the initial discovery that the key to whether a shoe fits well or not lies in the distribution of the body's weight. He said that when a person stands, the weight falls on a straight line extending down from the arch of the foot. This led him to design a new type of shoe that supports the arch of the foot, allowing the foot to hang like an upside-down pendulum.

And with nearly 100 years of history of BALYSIKA?s shoes, the basic models are also about 60-90 lasts, each pair of shoes sizes from 37 yards to 44 yards, and each size of the shoe and 3-7 varying widths of the shoe, so BALYSIKA?s shoes generally have dozens of shoe models, no matter what kind of foot type and what kind of walking habits, can be found in the Bali Shijia suitable for the shoes. Until now, Italian famous shoes production factories basically insist on using handmade way to make shoes. This is also one of the important reasons why Italian famous shoes are in the leading position in the international market. Whether it is from cutting the leather, punching holes or sewing, the shoemakers hand down the shoes from one generation to the next and do not dare to slacken off at all. BALYSIKA (BALYSIKA) craftsmen participate in every detail of shoe-making, in order to ensure the quality, BALYSIKA?s operation is almost entirely done by hand, such as perforation work, BALYSIKA (BALYSIKA) requires the craftsmen to be manually completed with a specific perforation machine, but these perforation machines are really too old, and there is no longer any new equipment production, so BALYSIKA (BALYSIKA) is one of the reasons for its leading position in the international market. (BALYSIKA) acquired all the second-hand equipment it could find to ensure that the hand-punching was perfect.

BALYSIKA? s handmade craftsmanship implies skill and precision, with hours spent on the hand hemming of just one pair of shoes. The key to this process is the choice of materials for both the inside and outside of the shoe. Both the inner and outer materials must be of the highest quality and natural, and are processed to increase their malleability, so that they mold to the shape of the foot the first time it is put on.

The refinement and respect for traditional craftsmanship and absolute quality make the production of a pair of fine Italian shoes take at least a few months, if not more than a year. The best leather in the world is used for Italian shoes. Since its foundation in 1920, BALYSIKA has had its own workshops and specialized leather factories for the production of shoes and accessories. BALYSIKA's dedicated tannery and workshop is said to be the last tanning workshop in Italy. The leather used for the soles of BALYSIKA shoes is sourced from the family tannery in Nobla, Limousin, France, which is one of the very few tanneries in the world to have preserved the traditional method of tanning leather with natural raw materials (oak and chestnut trees). The whole process of tanning with natural raw materials takes almost a year to obtain a strong and comfortable leather for shoe soles. In BALYSIKA (BALYSIKA) store, you can choose the leather, there are more than 150 kinds of the world's best leather, to choose, including crocodile, lizard, ostrich and antelope, a variety of different colors are available, customers can choose rare leather, or different materials and colors with each other.