primitive survival evolution

Chapter 132 Spinning and Weaving
The bright sunlight shines into the house from the square window.

It was very cool in the dark mud house. In a corner of the mud house, on a wooden bed with straw mats, lay a man with a thick linen cloth covering his stomach.

The beam of sunlight fell on Li Yan's face, and soon he woke up.

He sat up, crossed his feet, put on a pair of leather flip-flops, and walked out of the mud house. He then fetched some water from a well in the yard to wash.

The gate of this courtyard is facing the center of Jiangcheng, and there is a spacious stone road where people come and go. At this time, many people are up and eating breakfast, and some people who got up earlier have already carried iron hoes to plant the land, getting more and more Many young people choose to move to live in the mud city below the mountain, while the tower city on the mountain is just a place where old people live.

Li Yan walked out of the yard, walked a few steps along the stone road, and came to the mud house yard where Bai Wu and Ying lived.

They were cooking breakfast in the yard, and Li Yan would eat three meals a day here, and only when he got tired of eating would he go back to cook by himself.

Today's breakfast is very ordinary, polenta and some berries.

After breakfast, Li Yan will be busy again. The tribe's expenses are relatively large, and money is needed both internally and externally.

Walking out of the mud city along the stone road, and looking towards the river, he couldn't help frowning.

By the river, there was a fight between a mammoth and a therastosaur!

It's worth it!

Li Yan ran to the river in a hurry, and saw several clansmen in the grass beside them, talking and laughing while watching them, and Wen Shi was also here.

The Therilosaurus kept swinging its claws and attacking, and the mammoth Xiaohei also kept roaring, sticking out his tusks to fight back.

"What happened?" Li Yanlian asked.

"Patriarch, they are exchanging ideas." Wen Shi replied.

"Discussion?"

Li Yan couldn't help but looked up at the newly uncontained Thercynosaurus.

"That's right, they have to fight every morning, and they won't get hurt," Wen Shi said.

"It's fine if you don't get hurt."

Mammoth Xiaohei and Therakosaurus are the top behemoths of the Jiang tribe. With them, the Jiang tribe has the capital to compete with other big clans. The entire Jiang tribe value these two behemoths very much.

Li Yan gave a warning, then turned around and headed north. Many criss-cross dirt roads were built in the valley, and this road led to the north of the valley.

To the north of the valley is a forest, which is the industrial gathering place of the tribe. It is not easy to cultivate and plant in the forest, so we can only build workshops. Trees are needed for pottery and iron making, which is also convenient.

The textile and leather factories are relatively close. Li Yan walked along the dirt road and came to the textile factory. At this time, there were already more than 20 men and women spinning, five of them were spinning thread, ten were weaving, And these 15 people are from Gecun, workers arranged by Li Yan to work here.

In addition to these 15 people, there are five other textile workers from the original ginger tribe. For example, a woman with a broken leg who can weave was obtained when the Udang tribe was captured before, and four of them were ginger workers brought out by her. Clan, this woman with a broken leg is very good at weaving, even better than the Ge people.

People weaving at this time use their feet to prop up the weaving tools composed of several wooden sticks, just like the Ge people.

But the woman with a broken leg had a broken leg, so she built a frame out of wood for weaving. The efficiency of her weaving with the wooden frame is much higher than that of the Ge people who use both hands and feet to weave.

Li Yan thinks that this should be the prototype of the loom. In ancient times, weaving was the most skilled work, and the loom was also very complicated. Later, people gradually explored some tricks during the long development, and slowly improved to create sewing machine.

Obviously, the tool used by the woman with a broken leg is the prototype of the loom.

Two tools are used for weaving, one is the spinning wheel, which is like a windmill, and the hemp fiber is twisted into long and thin twine by hand, and then rolled on the spinning wheel to prepare for weaving.

The other is the main tool for weaving. The principle of weaving is to interweave silk threads in a criss-cross pattern to form a wide cloth.

In fact, even if you don’t need a loom, you can weave cloth with only a few branches, just like knitting sweaters. The more advanced ones are the Ge people. Sitting on the ground and weaving with a frame supported by their hands and feet, the more advanced ones are The wooden frame weaving tool invented by the woman with a broken leg.

Her weaving wooden frame is relatively complicated, and the cloth weaves is relatively narrow. Li Yan and the tribe improved it, and now it can weave cloth one meter wide.

There are three rows of wire combs in the middle of this wooden shelf, and two wooden shuttles for leading the wires. Li Yan improved its structure and made it stronger and bigger with woodworking tools.

The woman with the broken leg was a slave girl before and had no name, so Li Yan named her "Jiang Zhi". She was also the deputy director of the textile factory.

However, her slavish thoughts are still heavy. She only has skills, but she dare not order other people to do things. Therefore, the supervisor of this textile factory is a woman from the Ge tribe, named Ge Mo.

Most of the workers in this textile factory have female surnames, and only two men from the Ge nationality came to work as porters.

At this moment, in the textile factory (several sheds), in a corner of the factory, there are five neatly arranged windmill spinning wheels rotating rapidly, producing twine balls one by one.

In the middle, two rows of fifteen looms in total are weaving under the operation of the clansmen. They are not very proficient, and weaving is a bit slow.

"Patriarch."

Seeing someone coming in, Ge Mo hurried to meet him, only to find that it was Li Yan.

"Patriarch."

"Patriarch."

Seeing this, the rest of the clansmen also stopped to greet her. The woman with the broken leg was still leaning on a wooden cane, and ran with difficulty.

These people. In the past, it was not easy to work and live like they are now. Li Yan asked them to stay here to weave, and they would have enough food. Whoever weaves more will have meat to eat, and there are even other rewards. Just working eleven hours, very humane!

"Well, do you think there is anything to add in this textile factory?" Li Yan looked at them and nodded and asked. The textile factory has not been established for a long time, and there are many things to be improved.

"Yes." Supervisor Ge Gelian replied, "We need to add [-] people who spin yarn."

spinning?

Spinning is twisting hemp into thread. If silk or cotton is used, it is called spinning. This process is relatively simple, but the efficiency is very low, and it is also the most important. The main cause of the second industrial revolution is the spinning jenny. The invention shows its importance.

The twenty thread-spinning people already accounted for 20.00% of the Jiang tribe with a total population of only 50 people. With the addition of the weavers here, the population of the Jiang tribe used for weaving reached [-] people. It is close to one-tenth of the population. This is a big test for the Jiang tribe whose agriculture has not yet developed. After all, other factories also need manpower.

(End of this chapter)