Shoes material with natural fiber fabric and leather primarily, chemical synthesis material gradually since modern times. According to the shoes (upper material), the structure can be divided into fabric material, base, four categories of accessories.

The fabric

Leather, synthetic leather, textiles, rubber and plastic, etc. Multi-purpose shoes fabric after tanning of cattle, pigs, sheep grain MianRuan leather or suede, soft leather and synthetic leather; High-grade shoes also useful crocodile leather, snakeskin, chicken feet. Cloth shoes and rubber shoes choose strong, more wear-resisting, heat preservation, moisture absorption, good cotton cloth and cloth, such as kampot, velveteen, on-line, corduroy, denim and gabardine, suiting, admiralty cloth, cloth, etc. Various kinds of synthetic resins and natural rubber as the main material of plastic shoes and rubber shoes.

In the material

Are mainly cotton (cotton), mountain sheep's clothing, cotton wool, wool felt, wool, elastic cloth with soft nap, etc. Leather shoes in the second half is multi-purpose texture is soft mount, sheep leather, the first multi-purpose canvas; Cloth shoes or bleached cloth shoes mostly adopts the grey white cloth; Rubber boots are made in thin canvas material.

Winter warm shoes with felt or after tanning of fur as a shoe; Cloth of cotton boots flocculant (shoes) general into the cotton with a layer of cotton again after, can also be felt or elastic velvet. There are some shoes also used resin foamed composites or artificial wool for shoes.

base

Mainly include the hard leather, soft leather, imitation leather, cloth, rubber, plastic, rubber and plastic foaming material, etc. Hard leather is cattle, pig skin after processing, and more used in shoes, a small amount is used to make leather base cloth shoes. In addition, the shoes also widely used in imitation leather bottom. The main material of cloth is traditional cloth shoes bottom. With old cloth as raw material processed into GeBei flocculant or fill into bottom slab, with hemp rope by hand or machine into a cotton or wool. Plastic is PVC resin, used for plastic shoes and cloth shoes. Rubber with natural rubber and synthetic rubber, rubber shoes and cloth shoes. Soft leather is artificial leather and natural leather, used cloth slippers and soft bottom cloth shoes. Rubber and plastic and rubber foaming materials for shoes and cloth shoes.

Supplementary material

Mainly shoes eyes (circle, brazing), shoelaces, elastic cloth, nylon buckles, zippers, silk, cotton, hemp stitches (rope), nail, rivet, non-woven fabric, cardboard, puff and advocate to use leather, all kinds of ornaments, supporting parts, adhesives, and paste, etc.