The history of canvas shoes
Canvas shoes are light to wear and are a very good choice for travel or sports. Stepping on a pair of lively, playful, and colorful canvas casual shoes, it is a wonderful enjoyment to stroll in the embrace of nature with fragrant grains and maple leaves. Canvas shoes have become the darling of the trend, and manufacturers have also played more tricks on canvas shoes. Retro, sporty, glam, heavy metal, rock, horsehair, leather, denim, whatever the change, the effortless effortlessness of putting on espadrilles makes it a must-have for trendsetters. Canvas shoes and jeans are the same truth, and it is no problem to wear pencil pants. You can even wear a suit. That’s Yupi’s favorite style. Canvas shoes are a kind of “fashion weapon” that is full of spiritual energy and gives people offensive tension. Sneakers are a kind of “medium” that can help people make friends. Canvas shoes are not only the embodiment of cultural tension but also an extension of lifestyle.
Canvas shoes have a long history in China. From the earliest canvas shoes in the form of liberation, rubber shoes to today’s mini-painted canvas shoes, sports and leisure canvas shoes, and high-top canvas shoes, the technology have been quite mature, and the output is also large. Every year, China produces more than half of the global production of canvas shoes.
Canvas sneakers have a long history. As early as the 16th century, Europeans made “felt shoes” similar to canvas shoes. In the 19th century, many ordinary people in Europe began to wear canvas rubber-soled shoes. But natural rubber has its own characteristics. Too soft in hot weather, easy to crack in cold weather.
Modern canvas sneakers were created through large-scale industrial production. In 1839, American inventor Goodyear and many technicians, workers, and masters jointly developed a “rubber vulcanization process” to harden natural rubber, making canvas shoes more affordable and of better quality, which can be purchased by more people.
In the 1960s, the cheapness and leather of espadrilles made them, like jeans, a symbol of youthful rebellion and hippie spirit. The only thing people remember from the classic “The Graduate” are the light brown canvas sneakers on Dustin Hoffman’s feet, save for Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.” The film “Yellow Submarine” starring The Beatles inspired designers to start doodles on canvas shoes. The upper became a canvas, and with the addition of design elements, the canvas shoes turned over immediately, turning from sports equipment into a work of art.
Later, China’s Double Star, Huili, and other brands of canvas shoes also achieved good development.
It wasn’t until the post-World War II economic recovery in the 1970s and 1980s, when the boom in various sporting events flourished, that the popularity of canvas shoes cooled. Because of this, sneaker manufacturers founded in the 1960s and 1980s also have some popular canvas shoes, including Pawnee, Vance, etc., each with a different logo on the upper.
The retro craze in the early 2000s also revived these brands or continued to appreciate them. Adding a sense of fashion design to the existing elements is the most personalized fashion taste. Canvas shoes are no longer just “canvas” shoes. Horsehair, leather, suede, denim, corduroy, etc. are used in it.
China’s shoe-making process
China’s shoe-making process has a long history, and the earliest use of hand-sewing molding technology. The famous brand “Old Beijing Cloth Shoes” adopts this shoe-making process. Since the 20th century, with the introduction of advanced technology and special equipment from abroad, China’s shoe-making technology has developed rapidly. Up to now, China’s shoe-making process can be roughly divided into five types, namely: sewing process, injection molding process, molding process, bonding process, assembly process, etc.
Sewing craft
The stitching process is mainly by hand or machine stitching the upper and the sole. It is the traditional molding method of leather shoes and cloth shoes. There are two types of hand sewing and machine sewing. Manual sewing of reverse, bright and straight lines is the traditional classical method of cloth shoes, and bead seam and welt seam in machine sewing are traditional methods of leather shoes.
Injection molding process
There are 4 methods of the injection molding process.
①Injection method: Under moderate injection pressure and high barrel temperature, the synthetic resin plastic is injected into the mold to complete the curing of the sole and the combined molding of the upper at one time. Mostly used for cloth shoes. Leather shoes, plastic shoes, and rubber shoes also use this technology.
②Glue injection method: plasticize the rubber through the barrel, and then inject it into the mold with high injection pressure, and complete the bottoming and sticking at the same time. For cloth shoes and rubber shoes.
③Pouring method: The components A and B of the quantitative reaction raw material liquid (such as polyurethane, polyamide, etc.) are stirred at high speed in the mixing head, and poured into the mold cavity, cured, and formed under normal (high pressure) pressure. forming. Now it is mostly used to produce rubber shoes and a few cloth shoes.
④Hollow molding method: pour the plastisol into the shoe cavity and the shoe cavity, and rotate the mold while heating, so that a part of the plastisol adheres to the cavity wall and solidifies into a green body under the action of centrifugal force, and the excess plastisol is removed. The liquid is poured out, and the heating is continued to make the green body mature and stereotyped, and then put into the shoes after demoulding. For rubber and plastic shoes.
Molding
During the molding process, the sole and strap (for rubber shoes) are attached to the foot of the last stretched upper (the lower mouth of the upper), the rubber blank is put into the mold, heated and pressurized, and then vulcanized. to make. Mostly used for rubber shoes, leather shoes, and cloth shoes.
Bonding process
There are 3 methods of bonding process: ①Hot vulcanization bonding method: After pasting the various parts of the shoes, they are sent to the vulcanization tank, heated indirectly with steam or directly heated with air or steam, and the rubber parts are vulcanized at the same time, and the upper and bottom are glued. synthetic. Among them, the outsole, heel, and other parts are pre-formed and then pasted with other parts into the vulcanization tank for heating and vulcanization. This is called secondary vulcanization and is a traditional process for rubber shoe production. Some cloth shoes also use this method. ②Cold bonding method: Apply adhesive to the upper and sole, and press them together at room temperature. Now it is mostly used for leather shoes, cloth shoes, and rubber shoes. ③Adhesive seam method: After the upper and the sole are cold glued, a seam is sewed on the periphery of the sole to enhance the fastness between the sole and the upper.
Assembly process
The assembly process assembles shoe components made by injection molding, molding, or stamping into a shoe. Now it is mostly used for plastic slippers and plastic slippers.
Canvas Shoes Buying Skills
Canvas shoes, as the name suggests, are generally made of canvas. Look at the upper when choosing canvas shoes. When purchasing, check whether the curvature of the upper is normal, whether the two shoes are symmetrical, and whether there is a chromatic aberration; whether the stitches on different parts of the upper are uniform and tidy, and whether there are broken threads or skipped stitches; whether the colors are consistent; check the shoe body from the heel Whether it is perpendicular to the sole, whether the shoelace holes are skewed, and whether the left and right are aligned; whether the pattern and text printed on the upper are clear, and whether the pasted or stitched decorative icons are firm.
It is best to choose canvas shoes from regular manufacturers or professional manufacturers. Such manufacturers pay more attention to reputation, have better technology, and choose better materials. On the packaged shoe box, regular manufacturers will generally indicate the size, color, materials used in production, manufacturer’s phone number, quality standards, etc. The box is also beautiful.
Then check the soles. The sole generally uses a rubber outsole. Such soles require wear-resistant, non-slip, and lightweight. Therefore, when choosing a sole, check whether the anti-slip stripes on the sole are clear. Whether there is a glue defect. Whether the stripes are evenly spaced, and whether the soles of the same material have the same color. Look for pores or blisters.
Sole technology, there are vulcanized soles, and there are injection soles. Most of the shoes in Hebei Wangdu are injection-molded soles.
Finally check the insole. The insole should be soft and elastic by hand, and the printed trademark should be clear. Look at the rubber bonding area again to see if there are small glue spots and air bubbles. Put the two shoes on the ground, compare them, and check that the color, pattern, height, length, and width of each part are the same.
DANGMAICO Canvas Shoes
DANGMAICO canvas shoes are made by Wangdu local shoe factory, it has low cost but reliable quality.
The process of shoe factory working as follows:
- 1. Shoes upper cloth cutting
- 2. Sewing the cut cloth for shoes’ upper
- 3. Assembly of the shoe upper and outsole together by injection machine
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