Thread by thread makes real gold

In the past, darning was called "sewing poor". Two and three women were sitting by the roadside. In front of them was a sewing basket filled with scraps of cloth and needles of various colors. They were often used to sew old clothes for the poor. As the saying goes: the new three years, the old three years, sew mend another three years. In today's market filled with a wide variety of clothes, "patch pile patch" life habit has long gone far. It is reported that "sewing poor" has become one of the top 10 jobs that disappeared after the reform and opening up.

Although the title of "sewing poor" is no longer, the old industry of darning has turned around. Clothing beauty darning contains unlimited business opportunities, and there is no lack of people who have opened hundreds of chain stores, such as Xu Huidong in Nantong, Jiangsu.

Xu HuIDONG IS 39 YEARS OLD THIS YEAR, AFTER TECHNICAL SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADUATES, WORKED IN NEWSPAPER OFFICE AND TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT MORE THAN A YEAR, THE DULL AND BORING organ life makes him tired VERY quickly, HE DECIDES to SEEK another WAY out.

Following their relatives and friends around, Xu Huidong did more than two years of foreign trade bed product management and dug his first bucket of gold. Later, malicious price competition repeatedly occurred, and Xu Huidong's business was greatly impacted. At the end of the year, he had almost no cash in his account except for 300,000 yuan in IOU for processing fees, so he had to opt-out.

Once, he accidentally learned from the media that an old lady in Nantong led her family on the road to wealth by darning, and made nearly one million assets. An old memory came to him. Cousin a customer's famous suit was burned a hole by a cigarette butt, 6000 more than the suit thrown is a pity, can wear and not elegant. So he spent 60 yuan at the Beijing washing and dyeing general store for darning, even the patch can not see the trace. After the event, the cousin of the textile goods business sighed: "We took the goods from Nantong to Beijing, wind, and rain, a set of more than 500 money bedspread just earned 10 yuan. People get 60 yuan for a hole. It's a good business." Cousin then really gave up the Beijing bedding business, back to Nantong to do clothing darning.

Xu Huidong found that in addition to darning technology, clothing beauty also includes clothing renovation and color change, clothing modification, and so on. "That old lady made a million dollars for a single skill. Wouldn't I make at least three million dollars for a triathlon? There's a lot of opportunity in this program." So, he began to learn garment darning technology patiently with his cousin. At the same time, I began to study the clothing and beauty industry.

After mastering the basic skills of darning technology from his cousin, Xu Huidong began to explore more high-end darning, dyeing, plastic, and other clothing beauty techniques. How to weave plain fabric tightly knit, how to darken different twill fabrics, cotton clothing conventional dyeing color is not correct, and other problems, he through "books and practice" to grasp the first-hand data, materials, and methods.

To learn his skills, Xu used to experiment with his clothes, which were often covered with patches and dyed with different colors. And he often sat with several old women to study the knack of darning and was laughed at. Half a year down, Xu Huidong developed the darning beauty method, some color yellowing old high-end clothes, because of the change in the figure can not wear the old clothes, hook silk holes brand clothing, to his hands, quickly magic like a new beautiful and fit.

In November 2003, XU Huidong SET UP HIS clothing and beauty shop in a large shopping mall, earning a net profit of 15,000 yuan in the third month. Then in Yangzhou, Nantong, and other places opened several clothing beauty darning chain stores. Unique technical services, good market demand, quickly Amoy clothing beauty darning the first bucket of gold.

In 2008, Xu Huidong read from the media that many laid-off workers had difficulty finding jobs because they did not master the technology. He immediately contacted the labor and social security department of Yangzhou and held free training on darning techniques. Did not expect a lot of people to learn after wanting more, come to ask to learn more advanced clothing and beauty technology. He simply opened classes to receive students, according to the different skills taught, open different levels of training, each region within two years only one student, students after learning to return home within two years can open a franchise. Now, he has students all over the country and has opened nearly 100 franchise stores, earning 120,000 yuan from darning training alone.

The financial crisis of the past two years is also no small help for Xu Huidong's business. He said, a lot of people's income is affected, do not buy brand-name clothing, the old clothes at home out to change style and color, it is new clothes, and the cost of reconstruction is much cheaper. After also someone bought discount goods, undertake modification to dress beauty shop.

In September 2009, Xu also taught a white-collar female apprentice from Shanghai who was attracted by his reputation. After she went abroad, she opened a darning shop in the United States. She had no idea that this craft was so popular in the United States. Some high-grade clothes to mending technology requirements are very high, contact with the master, send the clothes back home to ask the teacher darning.

To expand the influence, Xu Huidong specially registered the "Chinese Darning network" website, and applied for the "Xu master" trademark. He hopes that through his own hands, darning this traditional unpopular occupation, to do a thriving, into a big industry.