Leather: The Dilemma Behind The Bustle

Small shops, with hand-made sewing bags, backpacks, shoulders, shoulders, bags and backpacks, can be bought in a large and small leather store in Shuhe. A lot of leather materials are often seen in the middle of the shop. Customers wait for the guests to leave after they leave. The shopkeepers are either skinning or sewing, and the small pieces of the edges and corners will be made into small objects such as tablets and clips.

There are many such leather goods stores in Shuhe.

Since the end of 2013, leather goods stores in Shuhe have been reduced a lot.

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Higher and higher, selling leather goods is impossible to pay high rent, which is the most heard.

"If we go on like this, there will be only jade sellers, silver sellers, tea sellers and bars in the ancient towns of Shuhe", Shuhe merchants said reluctantly.

Shuhe gate

Jiang Wenhao, a shopkeeper, said that a house with a price of less than 10 thousand yuan a year before the 12 square meter shop rose to over 50 thousand yuan this year. There was no way to continue.

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At present, the leather shops in Shuhe are basically outsiders, and more or less have some experience in making leather. In Shuhe, the traditional embroidery and so on are integrated into the design of the package, with unique flavor.

Jiang Wenhao, who worked in Shenzhen shoe factory for several years, came to Shuhe in the first few years and opened a luggage shop to Shuhe's reputation as a cobbler.

Nowadays, fewer and fewer craftsmen are craftsmen, and are still living in open door leather shops.

"When we come here to make bags, we can only cater to the public's preferences and take into account everyone's purchasing power."

Jiang Wenhao said that he originally wanted to find an old handicraftsman, but at present, it is difficult for Shuhe to find the old cobbler. Even if he finds it, no one is still making leather.

Purely hand-made things, from the aspects of raw materials, design, and so on, their own stores can not afford such a cost, so the luggage shop is like most of the other leather goods shops seen in the ancient town of Shuhe, and only do simple cutting, sewing, embroidery pieces, hardware and other steps.

The value of leather goods, the purchasing power of customers, and the high rent of the house have been impacted by many unique shops in the ancient town of Shuhe. Many shops and businesses are changing. Many shopkeepers are worried about how long the store can last.

In fact, back to the history of leather making in Shuhe, it has China's best cobbler craft.

During the Ming Dynasty, during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, a group of imperial cobblers were exiled to Yunnan because of the "boots lantern incident". They were rehoused in Shuhe by Mu Si Tusi, and they began to thrive in the border areas and founded leather industry.