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finishing touch of the making of a wooden shoe is, of course, the
decoration. Sometimes the decoration is only a painting sometimes also
carved work. As art, the carved work in wooden shoes and to paint on them
has not disappeared yet. People who do this kind of work don't do it for a
living, but because they like to do it, it's their hobby. The work of the
loving amateur leads to an other "hobby", the "klompendanskunst"
(a dance on wooden shoes), and to the wearing of costumes. It's true that
people in some places in Holland still wear their costume and their
belonging to wooden shoes daily is like a natural, spontaneous thing.
But a lot of costumes are already in a museum, no one still wears them.
And the wooden shoe with decoration is going to be only in a museum to
look at, too. The valuable wooden shoes decoration process is going to
belong to a disappearing folklore. |
