Boots couture

Remember how the postman Pechkin taught Sharik, who bought a pair of sneakers for winter:
"In the winter village traditional clothes what? Fur coat, cotton pants and boots! »
Not averse to join the exotic and rural citizens. Especially that valenkodely offer not only a classic black-and-white shoes, and designer. I visited the factory in the small town of Kusa (Chelyabinsk region), which produces boots for traditional technologies.
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Login textiles guards strict controller - mongrel parliament. All factory - two single-storey barracks, the staff - two dozen people.
 - We have all the equipment still Soviet, and therefore do soundly, - says the operator of the washing machine Yegor Ivanovich. - In large factories in the wool and the added sawdust and straw, and we clean sheepskin. Demolition felt boots not. And we do not use acid, so the boots of the wet weather did not "got on" hold shape.
Especially here boast remaining inherited from the Soviet era cast iron sharp-nosed shoes.
 - They're beautiful - boasts Yegor Ivanovich. - Not that blunt Bashkir: their so-called because these pads are used on there the factories. Us for boots even come from Ufa!
A couple of years ago it began to make colored boots. Beautiful and very comfortable. The kindergarten will not mix, here are yellowish - Machinery and those greenbacks - Petya. And then all began to embroider boots with fur, beads and sequins. Commercial account almost a win-win: urban fashionista from Chelyabinsk to brilliant not stand. Designer shoes torn from his hands.
By the way, boots cheaper to buy directly to the factory in Kusa. You can find in the shops of Chelyabinsk, but there is more.

The crisis - is nonsense. The trouble is that the frost was not long

Fall indexes and sorts collapses valenochnoy industry only on hand. Fiscal shoes at a time by the way. But Russia never everything is perfect. Once the world situation is favorable, so the weather brings.
 - Last year at this time in our warehouses were two pairs of boots, and now all the shelves are filled up - sigh director Nina Piskuleva manufactory. - We have and so a short season: the summer working at the warehouse. A frost in December hit. But snapping souvenir boots well. Even a sign there: one to put boots coin to life was rich, and the other - a candy that was sweet. A few days ago came the grandmother said, stormed the house, it is necessary to appease his felt boots.



How much
Black From 340 rubles for 17 minutes the size of up to 700 rubles for 33 minutes
Colored from 440 to 800 rubles
Designer adults from 1500 to 2000 rubles
Designer children from 700 to 900 rubles
Souvenirs 150 rubles



1
Armful of wool spread on the table. The car slowly swallows jagged shreds. Inside - warm rolls, which have softened and leveled. On the other hand leaves a thin web, which is called tow.



2
Wool fabric is placed on the Sliding table. A worker arranges neatly tow, wets its special brush. It lowers the cover, and she begins to walk from side to side, smoothing the workpiece.



3
Tow square pieces shaped boots. Samples sizes are painted directly on the table. Unnecessary pieces tow masters pinch off his hands. Then the skeleton of the future building up valenki "meat": impose several layers of wool socks on his heels and more to long Do not wash.



4
Semi-finished boots at times more ready. In the hot shop wash it three times, and then paint. By this time, the dimensionless sheepskin stockings "sits down" - shrinks to the size of normal boots. Steamed billet pull to the machine called "Crocodile", he pushes the ankle.



5
The strip is inserted into the boots, which gives shape to the foot and ankle boots (wooden plank), they simulate the shin. Stuffed boots hit several times on the wooden stump to secure the shape.



6
Dries boots, to his chosen pair of cloth thickness and color. All you can wear!



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