CHENGDU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- In the township of Tangchang, Lai Shufang carefully inspects the new cloth shoes she has made and cuts the extra trimmings protruding from the shoe edges. Lai, 62, is a ...

From the ruins of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (14th–12th centuries BC), archaeologists have unearthed, on independent occasions, a pair of leather shin guards and a headless, kneeling jade human ...

Lai Shufang shows the sole of a shoe in Zhanqi Village of Tangchang Township in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 17, 2020. Lai Shufang, 62, has been engaged in handmade Tangchang ...

Genuine leather sneakers that incorporate upcycled kimono fabric rescued from storage are growing popular throughout Japan and in other markets around the world. Sneakers of this type have been sold ...