Beaded shoes - during the Peranakan days, it was a trend for the Nyonyas to wear beaded shoes. Most of them learnt to sew it themselves. They worked with the tiny colourful size beads aka “manek potong”. It required the nyonya to have a lot of patience and dexterity with her fingers in order to complete a pair of kasut manek. Not many people wear beaded shoes nowadays. The only person that I can remember that is fond of the make-to-order beaded shoes is my “fairy godmother” Mary Chee. I am sure a pair of well made beaded shoes matches her elegance.
Some of the semi-finished and finished product on display. It's all custome made! The colors of the beads must give a good match to the theme selected. That includes: flowers, birds, fish, butterfly and "YuanYang".
According to the shoes maker Mr. Tan, the sewing process is tedious, can be strenuous on the eyes and therefore time consuming. The price is typically range from RM 350- RM 1,000 per pair. Therefore the product is commonly sold to a niche market.
Children of different races showing interest on the processes involved in beaded shoes making, from choosing a design, colour of the beads, specified needles, threads and frames. Explanation was given by this multilingual guy - English, Malay and Mandarin, to make sure no one is made disadvantaged by their language comprehension.
The Anak-anak Kota surprised the shoe maker Mr. Tan by making him a gaint signboard for his business. Everyone passing by the road is easily attracted by this eyes catching signboard. Hopefully this will bring more businesses to him and make this industry shine again as in its yesteryears.
8 comments:
hi bro des,
u talented in photographing so take some nice pictures write a short story and send news company. u not really look for money, on the other hand just for your hobby and may be u will be come a famous photographer....who know??? cheers
dan
woi...dun kacau la u....i knwo is u one ok? massage
Bro Dan,
Perhaps u need to teach me how to get into business then. I have lots of hobbies, but i can't do them all. So I just learn to appreciate them.
KokahKok,
What u mean? Dun understand la..
fren,
Hey! Y nothing to update lioa in ur blog?
I plan a trip going to Redang again on 13th ~ 17th July. Are you interested to join? you may invite your frens too. I believe after the trip you will have a lot of things to promote. hahaha!
beside that, i think that is the right place for City people to take a rest and release stress.
Hey dude…
You seem reading blog rather often ya..Become addicted already ar? I have many things in mind, but need time to organize and word them down. Redang is a nice island, but July is not a good timing for me. Perhaps August will be free. If anyone organizes Sipadan trip, let me know, I’ll make it a go!
很細膩的手工
這文化還會遺傳下去嗎？
Any more of the programme Anak-anak Kota now? Would be interesting to bring my niece for a look-see (of course I'm also interested lah, just using her as an excuse), hahah.. ^-^
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