primitive survival evolution

Chapter 219 Advance Textile Factory

ginger tribe.

In the animal taming department, in a courtyard surrounded by walls, under the shed, Li Yan and his clan are building an incubation room.

In a fence, there were three beast eggs, one of which was the largest with blue spots, one size larger than the other two Fengshen pterosaur eggs, and all the eggs were safely placed in the grass nest.

, a three-meter-long, one-man-tall Dimetrodon lay quietly sleeping next to the three eggs.

Dimetrodon's back was like a sail, and the blood vessels on its back were trembling. Dimetrodon would radiate its own heat to hatch the surrounding beast eggs, so people used its physiological characteristics to hatch beast eggs.

Li Yan looked at it for a while, and said to others: "Shi, the Nian people are very nervous about that blue beast egg. It should be a very powerful beast. You must hatch it, understand?"

"Don't worry, Patriarch, we have tried hatching beast eggs before, and it should be fine." Wen Shi nodded.

"Okay then, I'll leave it to you here."

"Ah."

Walking out of the animal taming department, Li Yan turned into the nearby textile factory.

Now, the textile factory of the Jiang Tribe has been upgraded. For example, there is a plaque above the factory: "Forward Textile Factory".

This factory was upgraded and expanded from the original sackcloth factory of the Jiang Tribe. The area is twice as large as before. In general, it is divided into two workshops.

The first is the spinning workshop, which is used to make yarn, such as spinning hemp thread, silk thread, and making bark fiber and grass fiber

The second is the weaving workshop, which mainly produces linen, silk, bark and grass cloth.

One for spinning and one for weaving.

The woven cloth will be sent to the nearby "Jianjin Garment Factory" to make finished products, such as silk clothes, cloth clothes, bark clothes, animal skin clothes and pants.

The manager of the tribe's textile industry is a woman from the Ge family, named Ge Mo.

Now, Ge Mo is accompanying Li Yan to inspect the tribe's textile factory.

The Jiang tribe built a sericulture base in the Lieshan tribe and brought back a large number of silkworm cocoons. Now, the textile factory is producing the first batch of silk.

A few days ago, after Li Yan returned from the Yi tribe, he personally taught them how to peel cocoons, spin threads to make clothes, and build this production line.

"Patriarch, this is the place. You can see if they are doing right." Ge Mo brought Li Yan to the first process of silk production in the spinning department.

The first process of making silkworm cocoons into threads is "stripping and peeling off the cocoons".

As the name suggests, it is to extract the silk from the cocoon.

Now, there are two women doing this part of the work. I saw them holding a basket of silkworm cocoons and scalding them to death in a vat of hot water. , it is easy to damage the silk, so burn it to death.

After the silkworms are scalded to death, a hole must be cut at one end of the cocoon with a knife, and the silkworms inside are taken out. These silkworms are edible and can be collected to make vegetables.

Get cocoons and send them to the second process.

There are ten women working on the second process.

Their job is to extract the silk from the peeled cocoons, twist them into silk threads by hand, and then wind them on the spinning wheel to make threads. This process is called spinning, and the finished products are called spindles, which are used for weaving.

Although the spinning process is simple, it is the least efficient. To make the textile industry develop rapidly, this spinning problem must be solved. Therefore, the invention of the later spinning jenny became the beginning of the industrial revolution.

But now, the Jiang tribe has just learned how to spin, and the tribe's industrial capacity is not enough to invent the spinning jenny, so Li Yan temporarily put aside the idea of ​​inventing the spinning jenny, making the spinning jenny requires belts, High-tech materials such as pulleys and springs are simply not capable of being produced by the current Jiang tribe.

These manually spun spindles will be sent to the next weaving factory for further processing.

After a year of development in the weaving technology of the Jiang tribe, [-] workers with weaving skills have been trained. Before, they were weaving Ge linen cloth and bark grass cloth (that is, weaving a piece of material with bark or grass fiber.) .

The principle of weaving silk cloth is similar to that of hemp weaving. After a day of experimentation, these female workers mastered the technique of weaving silk cloth.

I saw a female worker sitting next to a wooden loom, holding a bone needle, and weaving a row of horizontal threads on the loom back and forth, slowly weaving a piece of smooth silk cloth.

But her weaving speed is very slow, she can only weave tens of centimeters a day, the efficiency is very low, and she is considered the most proficient in this workshop.

Li Yan shook his head. There was no other way. Before the advent of electrification, weaving was a high-tech industry. Weaving by hand was a very slow process, even taking about the same time as farming, so there was a saying that men farm and women weave.

Seeing Li Yan shaking his head, Ge Mo thought that the weaving woman had made a mistake, so she quickly scolded her: "You, why are you weaving so slowly?"

"I-I-I can't go any faster." The weaving girl looked panic-stricken.

Li Yan said repeatedly: "Forget it, don't blame her, she is very good."

After all, I picked up a piece of silk cloth the size of a small handkerchief next to it and looked at it. The whole body of the cloth was white, the surface was smooth, and it was very light. The number of weaving frames was very small, which was not as good as modern cloth, but it was also top-notch in this era. It exists, and it is twice as high-end as the cloth produced by the Ziyi tribe.

This is a good start, Li Yan is very satisfied, however, he felt it, and suddenly frowned when he thought of something.

Now the tribe can produce linen and silk cloth.

However, this is only a semi-finished product!

Another important process of weaving is bleaching and dyeing!

The cloth woven from silk is white, and the cloth woven from linen is yellowish brown.

The clothes produced are only white and tan. Now many people in the tribe wear animal skins and bark, but when commoner clothes become popular in the future, the clothes worn by the tribesmen will be all white or brown. Think about it. feel terrible.

Cloth can’t have only one color, white is unlucky, and it’s easy to get dirty, so it’s not acceptable at all, so it must be dyed, dyed into various colors, and made into clothes of various colors, such as military clothes in camouflage colors, It can also enhance the combat effectiveness of the tribal army.

Thinking of this, Li Yan even asked others: "Moth, you Ge family used to weave cloth, and you all wore linen clothes. Do you know that there are some plant juices or mud that are difficult to wash off when dipped in linen? "

Li Yan remembered that the linen clothes of those big tribesmen seemed to have many colors, so they must know how to dye cloth, but they didn't know what materials they used to dye.

Ge Mo heard it, thought for a while, and said: "Patriarch, I remember that there was a blue flower in our Ge tribe before. Its roots would ooze blue juice, and it was difficult to wash off the linen cloth. Planting flowers is also a kind of herbal medicine, and drinking boiled water can cure fever!"

"There are so many effects? I'd like to go and see, is it where you used to be from the Ge tribe?"

"Yes."

"Okay, come with me, let's go and have a look together."

(End of this chapter)