Tiger-head shoes and caps for kids
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Editor's note: Tiger-head shoes and caps are traditional Chinese folk handicrafts used as clothing accessories for children. In Chinese culture, tigers are regarded as auspicious and vigorous. It’s customary to decorate the upper and fore parts of shoes and caps with vivid images of tiger-head patterns in the hope that their children will become as robust and healthy as tigers. Great care and precision is needed to make the handcrafts including sewing, stitching and embroidering. Materials are usually colorful cotton fabrics and threads. Tiger-head caps and shoes have a huge market particularly during the cold winter and the New Year period. In the following pictures, two senior craftswomen from Anhui Province display their products of excellent workmanship.
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These are tiger-head shoes made by 97-year-old Jiang Weishi. She displays the tiger-head shoes and caps for her neighbor Xu Qiaoxia and her children in Weizhuang Village of Woyang County in Anhui Province, on Nov. 26, 2015. It is a skill handed down in her family from generation to generation. Jiang started to learn the skill at the age of 15 and her products have been well received by local people. [Photo by Gao Yanan/China.com.cn] |
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