Extraordinary masters of folk art made famous on the Internet

Peng Shizeng, a 55-year-old shoemaker, makes miniature leather shoes in Jinan, East China’s Shandong province. Peng was a shoe designer at a Jinan leather shoe factory butlost his job in the 1990s as the factory went out of business due to poor management. Laid-off, Peng began to make miniature leather shoes. He set up a workshop and has made many pairs of special miniature leather shoes. His smallest creation is only 8 millimeters long and took him dozens of days to finish. [Photo by Zhang Wei/iqilu.com]