He Kaiying
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1980 he entered Neiliansheng to study, under the tutelage of Wang Wenlin.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnic group, born in May 1956, a native of Beijing. A national representative bearer of Neiliansheng Thousand-Layer Sole Cloth Shoe Making Craftsmanship, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is the fourth-generation transmitter of Neiliansheng thousand-layer sole cloth shoe making. He has a comprehensive command of the traditional process and excels at combining the upright, exposed-seam and reversed sole-stitching methods with a range of other stitching techniques; his sole work is clean, brisk and precise, and his products are flat, snug and finely made. He has innovated the raw materials for handmade cloth shoes, developed a variety of shoe styles and lasts, and applied the craft to more than a thousand products across men's, women's, children's and slipper lines. Since 2005 he has taken Ren Chenyang, Cai Wenke, Xu Wenhao and Bu Di as apprentices. In 2010 he took part in drafting the industry standard for handmade cloth shoes in China.
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