Day 3 in Amsterdam, we join the half day excursions to Volendam-Marken+Windmills. It cost us Euro 37 per pax for this 4.5hour tour.
Beside from milk cow, Holland is famous of clogs. Almost every visitors who came will bought a pair of clogs, or clogs keychain, or clogs magnet...Clogs is the traditional shoe wore by dutch. As it is water proof, warm and light.
Clogs sifu show us the material , the willow wood. First, cut out the length that you needed. Depending on your feet size.
Clamp the wood on the engraving machine. The one at right hand side is sample. The mechanism of this machine is just as key making machine. It will copy the sample shape and engrave on raw material accordingly.
Within 2 minutes, outer shape of a clogs shoe is finished. Now the inner engraver start working.
It only took another one minute to complete the inner part. Sifu remove the exceeding part at raw clogs.
Then it is ready to wear! The standard of wearing the clogs is to wear the stocking first, then between clogs and feet should had 1 finger distance of space to ensure you wear the right size.
So here is the clogs with painting and polishing. From Wikepedia, i found out that Holland clogs is so advance- The traditional all-wooden Dutch klompen (clogs) have been officially accredited as safety shoes with the CE mark and can withstand almost any penetration including sharp objects and/or concentrated acids. 
Wow! Can clogs wearing be a trend in the future?! Yes, we had clogs brand now , which is the rubber clogs. It's a brilliant business and designing idea but i don't think it can get the "CE Mark" as the traditional wooden clogs as!
No comments:
Post a Comment