蒙古靴传统制作工艺调查

蒙古靴是颇具特色的蒙古族服饰的重要组成部件之一。以制靴材料来分,蒙古靴有毡靴、皮靴和布靴之别。传统的蒙古皮靴要采用一些特殊材料,经50多道工序才能制作完成。目前在呼和浩特市场上可见的绝大多数蒙古皮靴,所用材料皆不佳,工艺也与传统的制作工艺存在很大差距。63岁的吴润达师傅,在时隔42年后,于2006年5月又重操蒙古皮靴制作旧业,再现了这种手艺。此项传统手艺赖以存在的环境已经发生了很大变化,在如今新的社会环境下,它能否继续传承下去,是一个值得各方关注和思考的问题。

An Investigation on the Traditionary Craft of Making Mongolian Leather Boots

Mongolian Boots constitute the very important and characteristic parts of Mongolian dresses. And the Mongolia footgear can be divided into three categories such as felt, leather and cloth footgear according to the materials from which they are made. The leather footgear of Mongolian nations was traditionally made of some special materials and the working procedure could be separated into more than 50 steps. But most of the Mongolian leather footgear samples available nowadays in shops of Huhhot are very poor in materials and skills which cannot be compared with the traditional exquisite ones. Mr. Wu Runda, who is 63 years old now, has restarted to make traditional Mongolian leather footgear since the May of 2006 and manifested his skilled crafts. It was 42 years ago that he transferred to other kind of works from this field. Since the background on which the traditional crafts for making Mongolian leather footgear depended has changed a lot, it is indeed a question deserving to be paid much attention as to how to preserve the crafts and hand them on in the new social contexts of present-day and the future.