Handmade tiger shoes

I remember when I was a child there were many small children wearing tiger shoes, feeling so loving and beautiful. Now I want my baby to wear a pair, but I can't find any on the market, so I'm going to make my own pair. First, I went to my grandpa and grandma to learn how to make a pair of tiger shoes, so I figured out the general steps and drew a good picture.

The materials needed are: cloth, newspaper, paste, colored thread, needle.

1, the making of the sole and upper:

The paper pattern of the sole and upper was cut out of newspaper compared to the baby's little feet, and then compared to the pattern of the shoe cut out three layers of the sole and a layer of the upper surface, a layer of fabric in the upper. The cut fabric was glued with paste, flattened and dried, then the soles were run through the sewing machine to cut off the excess fabric. This completes the foundation part of the sole and upper.

Hemming the upper is a tricky job, divided into upper and lower bottom hems, which is a test of merit. When you hem the upper, first sew up the back edge of the upper, and then hem the upper in the order from outside to inside. It is best to use a sewing machine to walk around the upper edge, so that it is more beautiful, and pay attention to the cloth should not be pleated, otherwise one is not flat, and the other is that it will grind the baby's feet.

2, the production of the tiger's head

The tiger's head on the paper first drawn, and then glue the paste on the cloth cut.

In the red cloth your favorite color sample with the tiger's five senses sewn, with red thread holding the edge.

Stitch the tiger's head to the upper part of the shoe.

3, help the bottom together

Turn the outside of the sole and the inside of the shoes, the bottom and the help with four strands of thread, locking the edge of the stitching, pay attention to the line to pull a little tighter. Turn over after sewing.

4, the last step: sewing the band

Sew two bands by hand, sewed on the back of the shoe is complete.

The legend of "tiger shoes"

In the north of China, especially in the countryside, there are one or two year old dolls wearing "tiger shoes". custom. Tiger shoes with wide soles are not only comfortable to wear, but also easy for children to practice walking. The face of the shoes is modeled after the tiger's tigerishness, and the children wear them to ward off illnesses and evil spirits and to become adults. Therefore, most of the children in our area wear it to take the first step in life.

After the tiger shoes, don't forget to send shoes there are a lot of talk, send a pair of not send a single, six pairs, eight pairs, twelve pairs, more easy to good, grandma made good shoes can not be sewn with laces, laces should let the grandmother to sew on. It is said that this will make the doll rich and powerful.

The history of wearing "tiger shoes" can not be accurately examined, and there are local sayings. In the "gusset tiger" production, there is such a version: Legend has it that a long, long time ago, a village has a skillful woman, the best at embroidery. It is rumored that the fish she embroidered could swim in the water, and the flowers she embroidered could attract bees and butterflies. With such a skillful mother, the children of this family were dressed differently, so to speak, every day is not the same.

One night, a demon suddenly came and took all the children in the village. Only the children of this family were unharmed. Why? The child was wearing a pair of "tiger shoes" embroidered by a skillful woman, and because they were fresh and pretty, the child liked them so much that he didn't even want to take them off when he slept. Therefore, the people in the village believed that it was these "tiger shoes" that saved the child. Since then, the custom of wearing tiger shoes has been passed down to this day.

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Tiger shoes

Tiger shoes are a kind of traditional Chinese folk handicrafts produced by children's shoes, because the toe of the shoe is a tiger's head, so called tiger shoes, the northern region is also known as the cat's head shoes. It has both practical and ornamental value, and at the same time it is a kind of good luck, people give it the function of driving away ghosts and evil spirits.

Tiger shoes are complicated to do, only the tiger's head on the need to use embroidery, dial flowers, playing seeds and other needlework. The color of the upper is mainly red and yellow, and the tiger's mouth, eyebrows, nose, eyes and other places are often outlined with thick lines to exaggerate the tiger's might.

When a young child is about one year old, elders will give the child to wear tiger shoes, people believe that the tiger is the king of beasts, wearing tiger shoes can ward off evil evil to protect the peace, blessing the child's healthy growth.

In China, tiger shoes have a long history, and behind this history lies a legend.

A long time ago, in the famous ancient city of Yangzhou, there lived a boatman, his name was Da Yang, he was very generous and generous and very happy to help others. Soon, an old traveler came to the village, and she praised Da Yang's kind character. On her way out, she gave Big Sheep an old painting of a beautiful girl sewing a pair of tiger shoes with a needle and thread. The boatman loved the painting so much that he immediately hung it on the wall above his bed as soon as he got home.

One night, the girl in the painting suddenly came out of the painting, and spent a wonderful time with the big goat***. After that, they met every night. A year later, they gave birth to a boy, who brought more joy to the two families. However, something unfortunate happened, the village headman heard about the strange painting in Big Sheep's home, and brutally snatched the magic picture away. Big Sheep hated the evil village chief to the core, but he could do nothing about it. The greedy village chief hung the painting on the wall above his bed like Big Sheep, and every day he expected the woman in the painting to come down, to his disappointment, nothing happened.

The child of the big sheep grew up, he always kept calling for his mother, the big sheep had to keep cajoling him that his mother has gone to the far west can not come back. The sheep's words did not help at all, the child insisted on looking for his mother, and finally, he embarked on a journey to look for his mother. Night and day he kept sailing to the west, and finally in the forest he found his mother bathing in a puddle with many nymphs." Oh, my child, how did you come so far to find your mother?" As the mother was speaking, two crystal tears fell on the child's cheeks." Mom, know that I have lost you so much."" We could not be truly reunited until you walked into the village headman's bedroom wearing the tiger shoes I had sewn for you. Child, close your eyes and let me take you home first."

After a whirlwind, he is surprised to find himself home, and he tells the village chief that he can summon the woman-child from the painting down. The village chief, greedy and impatient, took the boy into his bedroom. When the child saw his mother, he summoned loudly to the painting, "Mom, let's go." As soon as the words left her mouth, the woman in the painting responded by getting off the floor, picking up the child in her arms and heading out the door. However the greedy village chief was already blocking the way. He brashly demanded that the woman be his wife. When he was refused, the mayor angrily pounced on the mother and child. The child bravely rushed forward to fight him. At that moment, the tiger's shoes came loose from the boy's feet and immediately changed into a colorful tiger, which quickly pounced on the evil village chief. The mayor's cries for help and the tiger's roar echoed throughout the village ......

The tiger's shoes saved both mother and son and their family. Since then, people have been making tiger shoes for their children in the hope that it will keep them and their families safe.

There is also an interesting story about wearing tiger shoes. Legend has it that on the banks of the Yellow River, there was a boatman named Shi, who was willing to help people on both sides of the river and never asked for money to ferry them across the river. 7 days ago, a grandmother crossed the river in the rain to ask for help with the delivery of her daughter-in-law, who was about to give birth. Who knows she just walked to the river. The wind, rain, headache like an explosion. Surnamed stone boatman saw, the grandmother to the house to rest, their own for the grandmother to ask the midwife. After the rain cleared, the grandmother's daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy. The grandmother thanked the boatman profusely and gave him a picture. The boatman liked the painting so much that he put it on his hut.

From then on, when the boatman returned home, there was always a beautiful girl waiting for him. It turned out that the girl was the daughter of the Heavenly Emperor, who sent her down to earth to marry the boatman. After ~ years, they had a son, named Shi Hu.

A few years passed, and people knew about the boatman's marriage to the beautiful girl in the painting. On this day, the magistrate came to the ferry, saw the boatman's wife is beautiful, want to take over as a concubine. When the boatman's wife saw the magistrate's evil intent, she withdrew her mortal body and returned to the painting. The magistrate snatched the painting and put the face on the bed. However, no matter how sweet the magistrate is, the beauty on the painting just won't come down.

Little Tiger was crying for his mother at home. The grandmother who delivered the painting told the boatman to let Little Tiger's aunt make a pair of tiger shoes, and if Little Tiger wore them, he would be able to find his mother. According to the grandmother's instructions, Tiger's aunt made a pair of tiger shoes overnight. Little tiger put on a try, body as light as a swallow, immediately to the county line to fly. He met the magistrate. Tiger shoes into a tiger, biting the magistrate, the boatman's wife to see the tiger to save her, rushed to jump down on the painting, with a small tiger happily home.

Now; people still think that the tiger shoes can remove the devil to protect the peace, so they have to do a pair of tiger shoes for children to wear. Some areas also pay attention to wear three pairs of tiger shoes, and retain the aunt to do three pairs of different colors of tiger shoes to send nephews of the custom. The proverb has; "the first pair of blue (take the harmonic stop, that is, stop not big fold), two pairs of red (red can ward off evil spirits, can be free from disaster), two pairs of purple inauguration (meaning that the child grows up to adulthood in his own family)." With blue, red and purple three pairs of different colors of tiger shoes, the child will be safe and sound.