Chapter 532: Spinning

From childhood to adulthood, the thing that Yoyo hates the most is getting up early, and what Didi is most afraid of is the old lady's wake-up anger. ??? ww?w?.?r?a?n?w?e?n?a'com Everyone in the family knows about her problem, and tries to ensure that she has enough sleep time in the morning.

"Sleep until you wake up naturally, count the money until your hands cramp. This sentence is often on Yoyo's lips, and grandma knows that this is Yoyo's life goal. Her old man's response every time was: "You can count the money until your hands cramp, and grandma can also let you sleep until you wake up naturally." ”

Grandma said that she would do it, and in the morning there was a big movement in the house, so she hurriedly came out and instructed: "Be quiet, don't wake up Youyou." ”

When Youyou's mother heard this, she protested: "Mom, you are used to her, you see who is such a big girl in the village who still sleeps lazily, and there is no child like you." ”

Grandma scolded back every time: "You see whose children are as healthy as our children, and the children have to sleep enough to have energy." ”

With grandma behind his back, he slept until dawn every day and got up refreshed.

David recorded the weaving of cheesecloth, and there was no need to run around at all, the women of Hantun Village worked in the garment factory and had no time to weave, and the Zhoulou and Shimiao in the neighboring villages almost every household weaved coarse cloth.

Now the cotton cloth of the supply and marketing cooperatives still needs cloth tickets, and the chemical fiber cloth can be used to make clothes, but cotton cloth is still used to make covers.

After the land is divided, every household grows cotton, not only can sell it to the state to make money, but also can weave their own cloth to make covers, and the old bed covers that are patched at home should have been replaced long ago.

In the past, weaving cloth was a combination of several companies, but now cotton is abundant, and they are all woven separately. A machine of cloth with 12 hooks can make 6 quilts, and the number of people is not enough for home use.

Nowadays, most people weave bedding, and few weave coarse cloth for clothes. Although the price is slightly higher, people's income has been high in the past two years, and eating and dressing are not a problem.

During the three months of winter leisure, the women spun thread at home, and there were several spinning wheels in a crowded family. Girls of seven or eight years old in the countryside, and elderly women in their seventies, can spin thread.

Starting from dawn and spinning to the end of the night, the spinning wheels of each family "squeak and squeak" turn, fast hands can spin a pound a day, and slow ones can also spin six taels.

Home-grown cotton is woven with the best cloth. The cotton harvested during the autumn equinox has long cotton fibers, which is not only easy to spin, but also has a thin and strong cotton thread.

With good cotton spinning and weaving, two catties are enough to weave a hook cloth, which can make a quilt or sheet. With frosted cotton, at least two and a half catties.

To weave a machine of cheesecloth, you have to use 2,530 catties of cotton thread, and a woman can spin it in a month.

During the three-month winter leisure, many people spun more than 50 catties of cotton thread, and many of them were almost 100 catties. Not only did he use cotton spinning thread, but he also spun more than 20 catties of post-frost flowers to prepare cloth bags for weaving grain.

The women worked hard to weave the cloth and planned to change the patched bedding in their homes. I grow cotton at home, and the flowers after the frost are basically not sold, so I keep them to make cotton covers.

There are few flowers after the spring cotton frost, and twenty or thirty catties of lint per mu. There are more flowers after summer cotton frost, 30 catties per mu.

The cotton harvested after the frost, although the velvet is short, the cottonseed straw (not full), the amount of velvet is high, and two and a half catties of cotton can produce a catty of lint.

The velvet after frost is short, the spinning quality is poor, and the national purchase price is relatively low, about 0.30 yuan per catty. The masses thought that the price was low, so they didn't buy the flowers after the frost.

In the past, every year per capita could not share two catties of lint, the team left a seed cotton rolled good lint, two or three taels per person, weaving cloth used to make warp, relatively strong and easy to work.

Two catties of cotton thread are not enough to weave a hook cloth, and it is not enough to make a single coat, and there is a lack of cotton sleeves to make a cotton coat.

The cheesecloth woven by myself is not strong, and adults are concerned about wearing it for a year. Children spend money on clothes, and they can wear out in a month or two. Therefore, both adults and children wear patched clothing.

Cotton can only be worn tightly, the cover can be improvised, and it is good for a family of five or six people to have two sets of covers.

Now, each person has at least one acre of cotton, and at least more than 20 catties of lint are left after being sold, and five people have hundreds of catties of lint.

With enough cotton, the women spun thread all winter, and a large number of them weaved a machine of cloth before the early winter froze, and made a new cover, and the whole family had a warm winter.

After freezing, the cotton thread is dyed and sizing slowly, and the cotton thread sticks together for a long time, and it is impossible to weave cloth.

Weaving cheesecloth is the most suitable in spring, the spring and the sun are beautiful, the rain is less, the days are long and the nights are short, the light is good, the spring is still the slack season, even when the production team, the women rarely go to work, are at home to do housework.

In fact, in the first month of the new year, women began to prepare for weaving. The spun cotton thread is beaten into thread crutches and made into thread tassels. To do this kind of work, you not only have to be careful but also have to be patient, and you can't do it quickly, it's a slow job.

At the beginning of the eighteenth day of the first month of junior high school, Yoyo took a leave of absence after receiving a new book, and accompanied David to record a weaving topic. Yoyo's main task is to translate and play a cameo role as a driver.

David's driving skills didn't say, but the position of the steering wheel of foreign and domestic cars was different, and he felt awkward.

Grandma has opened a sales outlet in recent years, and she is familiar with people in nearby villages. Led by her, everyone treated everyone warmly everywhere they went.

Didi also wanted to follow, but he didn't pass at his grandmother's, so he had to sit in the classroom and study, and he could only follow after a week.

Yoyo also wanted to take the opportunity to record this precious traditional skill, and in later generations, cheesecloth was named brocade, and brocade weaving skills were included in the world's intangible cultural heritage.

However, most of the cotton threads used for brocade weaving in later generations were woven threads. Traditional weaving techniques, hand-woven brocade cotton cloth, soft and comfortable, are deeply loved by people.

There are also pure artificially spun brocades, which have become the first choice for making baby products because of their good air permeability and fast water absorption.

As a pure handmade product, brocade is not only used for daily necessities, but also is made into various decorations, the price remains high, dozens of times that of woven cotton cloth, and belongs to high-end daily necessities.

When Yoyo first came through, he had the idea of buying cheesecloth, but at that time, there was little cotton, and the cloth that people weaved was not enough to wear, so how could there be any surplus to sell.

Weaving coarse cloth is not the same as making insoles, there must be sufficient cotton as raw materials. In the seventies, cotton was a national strategic material, and individuals were never allowed to operate it.

In the e-commerce mall, no matter how large the amount of high-quality cotton is, it does not dare to put it on the current market. The black market is not good, and the sale of cotton is within the scope of the state's crackdown.

In the 80s, with the implementation of the production responsibility system, the peasants had enough cotton and coarse cloth to weave just enough for their own use.

David's vision was truly unique, and in less than ten days of investigation, he discovered the special value of cheesecloth, which also made Yoyo renew his intention to develop traditional brocade.