Chapter 134: Shanghai Brocade
I just bought elastic yarn, and some manufacturers came to introduce their products, called nylon elastic jacquard cloth. Very beautiful, all with a dark red background and a floral pattern with a gold coil edge. For example, peonies, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, begonias, peonies and other beautiful flowers are embroidered with gold thread on the outer ring of the flowers. The fabric is very thick and stretchy, which is specially used for autumn clothes, which is very suitable for your lady to make outerwear. Rich and atmospheric. So the prince is in charge, and each kind is a million meters. Six yuan a meter, it cost six million yuan. This nylon stretch jacquard cloth is relatively heavy and gives people a fleshy feeling when touched. In order to attract repeat customers, the manufacturer gave all the cloth that the factory had always saved to the prince. Not an integer, probably nearly 10,000 bags. The prince brought back a few pieces of cloth for Yun'er to see what else she could do, and the rest was pulled back to Beijing.
Yun'er tried it, this kind of fabric is not good to make sachets, don't look at how thick it is, but it is very easy to make. From now on, if Yun'er doesn't calculate, she won't know how much fabric and cloth she has on her hands at all.
Grandma Serious also introduced Yun'er to a kind of cotton lattice and chemical fiber fabric, which specializes in aprons and tablecloths, and it cost three million yuan to buy one million meters for three yuan and one meter. The manufacturer gave 300,000 yuan of similar products as a gift
There is also a very strong denim, which is very suitable for ordinary people. Yun'er was afraid that the people of the Qing Dynasty would not recognize denim, so she only bought 500,000 meters, six yuan a meter; There was also a batch of cloth in the middle, which was not given away but sold to Yun'er for two yuan a bag, and it was also a bag of 20 kilograms, a total of 10,000 bags, which is 20,000 yuan. The size is very large, and in the past, denim was called "youth cloth" and "labor cloth". Very hard-wearing and stiff. It's perfect for people who do foul language to make clothes to wear. There are more than three feet in one piece, and there are also more than four feet in one. If you think about it again, two yuan and a bag of forty catties are cheap enough.
Every time the cloth arrived in Beijing, Mr. Zhong and Hailong settled down. After each time he settled down, the master converted away. Just around the secret room at the foot of Yun'er's Feiyun Tower, there are larger, extendable underground secret rooms, and the people in the house don't know how many things are more underground in the house, and they don't know how these things came back.
The secret room at Yun'er's feet was just one center among several secret rooms, the smallest one. The secret room is not the same as the secret passage, the secret room is more rigorous than the secret passage, because there is a door, which can be locked. Each of the other chambers was sixteen times the size of the one at Yun'er's feet, and it was doorless and completely enclosed. Yun'er had already mastered the method of teleportation, and at the same time knew that there were five secret rooms and a secret passage under her feet.
The two "representatives" in Beijing, Mr. Zhong and Hailong, in addition to picking up the car and settling the goods, also helped the prince think about the goods he didn't expect to buy. For example, dressing mirrors, makeup mirrors, square mirrors, this is something that the Qing Dynasty does not have, with the consent of the prince, I bought 100,000 dressing mirrors, and the frames were installed, but the makeup mirrors were not installed. It is generally used as wedding supplies, and a total of one million was spent. The manufacturer gave 10,000 pieces of various lenses without frames.
The next step is to buy brocade made in Shanghai, seriously said that the brocade produced in Shanghai is different from Hangzhou, many of them are rayon and nylon, Shanghai's brocade machines and technical strength are quite strong, and there are quite many types of brocade. For example, three-five brocade, imitation three-five brocade, jacquard brocade, gold silk jacquard brocade, printed silk, human silk polyester viscose jacquard brocade, plain wrinkled satin, double palace satin, encrypted jacquard brocade, gold and silver thread brocade, palindrome grid brocade, bright silk brocade, red gold phoenix tail brocade, golden peony brocade, three or five bamboo leaf flower brocade, Song brocade, silk cotton satin, glitter cloth, silver onion cloth, glitter satin, silk elastic crepe satin, silk polka dot rotten flower silk, etc., and so on brocade. If it weren't for the difference in price, it would be hard to tell which one is woven from mulberry silk and which one is rayon. The high-priced ones reach seventy or eighty yuan per meter, and the low-priced ones are more than five yuan. In front of these brocades, Yun'er couldn't tell which was good and which was imitated, so she could only rely on seriousness and eldest sister. When it comes to identifying brocades, a serious grandmother is a master. She told the eldest sister that she could use methods such as hand touching, ear hearing, looking at the luster, boiling water soaking, water dipping test, contrasting creases, ignition, pulling, and patting. Because of the different processing materials, the brocade and silk produced must be different. The true color is soft and delicate, elastic to the touch, and the chemical fiber raw material feels stiff or smooth abnormally: the dry silk will make a "rustling" sound when rubbing, which is called "silk sound", which is the unique characteristic of real silk, and chemical fiber and cotton do not; The luster of silk products is elegant and bright, but not dazzling, the reflective fold surface is similar to pearls, and the color of chemical fiber is pale, dazzling and dazzling; Put a little fiber into boiling water, and the silk that does not change significantly in a short period of time is the silk, and the chemical fiber that bends and sinks quickly......
In short, it can be identified. Although the method of identification was taught to the eldest sister, the serious grandmother was still not at ease, and when the three of them followed the serious to buy the first batch of brocade, they personally followed to the manufacturer, such an authority to help identify the real and fake, but it was enviable.
Because the purchase volume of the prince is too large, the manufacturer has made concessions on the price, in order to attract this big customer to become a repeat customer. Pure mulberry silk brocade is not absent, but rare. Half pure silk and half rayon blended are called "silk brocade", and the price of such brocade is generally in the price of more than 30 yuan. The serious grandmother told the leaders of the family that Mr. Fu not only bought silk brocade, but also human silk brocade and nylon brocade. The ex-factory price of the latter two prices is five or six yuan per meter, so how about you give him a price of ten yuan for blended brocade? The leaders of the manufacturer calculated the cost of ten yuan and did not lose it. Even if this doesn't make money, the more you buy others, the more you earn, so that on average, you still earn. I happily agreed. Of course, there is the face of Old Lady Ouyang. So, pure silk brocade bought a million meters, the price of each meter was ten yuan, and it cost 10 million yuan. The advantage of this brocade is that the garment made is very soft and comfortable, and it is a bit troublesome to make outerwear, but there are tailors from the Garment Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make it, and there are also skilled tailors who specialize in brocade among the people. There is also the more popular high-grade brocade here, that is, half silk and half cotton and linen, silk brocade of chemical fiber materials, the price of this brocade in the market is more than 30 yuan a meter, the pattern is clear, the style is diverse: elegant, rich, fresh, a little harder than the pure silk. But the sewing is a little better, and it is more structured. Eight yuan a meter, bought a million meters, and spent eight million yuan. Even if the brocade here is half pure silk, according to two feet for one foot of the Qing Dynasty, forty Wen, it is much cheaper than the Qing Dynasty. The eldest sister said that when she went back to sell brocade, she must sell it at the price of the Qing Dynasty, and she could not be lower than the Qing Dynasty. Even the price of the Qing Dynasty also has a hidden danger, that is, the widest width of the brocade in the Qing Dynasty is only one foot eight inches, and the narrowest width here is also seventy-five centimeters, that is, two and a half feet, and there are 90 centimeters and one meter four or five. Even large families are willing to buy wide cloth, who doesn't know that wide noodles can be cut and save cloth! In that way, they all come to buy the prince's brocade, and aren't other brocade villages still unlucky? The common people don't care if you are full silk or half silk, the color is so good, the pattern is so beautiful, the clothes are crisp and strong, and they are cheap, who would buy a narrow face brocade that costs more than ten feet to make a robe?
In this factory, I also bought 1 million meters of silk brocade, and the lowest ex-factory price of 5 yuan per meter was 5 million yuan: I also bought 1 million meters of nylon brocade at the same price and the same amount at the ex-factory price of 5 yuan per meter. A total of five million was spent.
All of the above manufacturers gave a certain number of gifts, and the gifts were not brocade, but thin silk that could be used to make underwear, and each piece was four or five feet in size. Probably last year's product, bundle by bundle rolled up unevenly. The manufacturer put it in the pocket, and there was no weigh, and when it was really impossible to stuff it, the pocket mouth was sealed. There are 100,000 bags of these gifts alone, and there are any colors of silk, whether it is to make underwear or cheongsam, they are all good materials, and those that are not suitable for cheongsam can also be used for underwear, and can not be used for framing underwear. For framed calligraphy and paintings, thin silk is the best, but this kind of silk is more distinctive. Gift boxes can also be used, Yun'er believes that the great poet Li Bai said, "I am born to be useful."
Yun'er took a fancy to the elasticity and color of nylon brocade, which was very gorgeous, and it didn't seem very suitable to make clothes, but it was not bad to make quilts. If the quilt is not close to each other, there will be no allergic reactions.
Then it's time to buy genuine silk and yarn. Yun'er lived in the civilian class before she got married, and she couldn't afford to wear those brocades, silks, and yarns, so she was not interested in asking. After getting married, he was pampered, and everything in life was the business of his grandmother Lin Qing. I know that silk, Luo, silk, and satin are worn by women from official eunuchs or rich and noble families.
Silk silk is just a simple name of silk, according to the variety can also be subdivided into silk, Luo, silk, satin, silk, yarn, silk, silk, spinning, silk, crepe, kudzu, wool, brocade, embroidery. Among them, yarn, Luo, silk, spinning, silk, silk and kudzu are plain weave fabrics, brocade and satin are relatively fat and bright, rich, and yarn and silk are relatively light and thin.
Yun'er's clothes are all ready-made clothes in the dowry, and whatever clothes are worn on any occasion are taken care of and served by Mama Lin and Yu'er. Fujin also often sends clothes for seasonal clothes, Mama Lin, Yu'er and Shui'er's needlework can be used to make clothes for Yun'er, and no matter how good the fabric is, Mrs. Chen can make it.
It doesn't matter if you're not interested in the past, in the future, you will still be an idiot and a mushy person, but you will lose money and be embarrassed. Taking advantage of the fact that there are experts like Ouyang and his wife by his side, he hurriedly consulted his serious grandparents.
Seeing that Yun'er took a notebook and a pen and sat in front of her, her serious grandmother said: "Actually, you don't need to remember, we have several kinds of silk here that no one wears, and basically no one produces them, such as Fang Ge." Kudzu cloth, commonly known as "summer cloth", refers to a fabric made from fibers in kudzu stems. The texture is thin, in addition to making clothing, it has been mostly used to make towels since the Wei and Jin dynasties. There is also Luo, they all say that silk, Luo, silk, and satin are worn by high-class people, and this Luo is very high-end. Luo is produced in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, so it is called Hangluo. Hangluo is composed of pure mulberry silk with plain weave and leno tissue, and there are two kinds of horizontal and straight luo. The eyelets are clear, comfortable and cool to wear. Hangluo and Jiangsu's Yunjin and Suzhou's Suzhou satin are known as China's "Southeast Three Treasures" and are well-known at home and abroad. Three products bought one million meters at the lowest ex-factory price of ten yuan per meter, and spent 10 million yuan. Due to the huge quantity, several manufacturers of the "Three Treasures of the Southeast" took the initiative to give gifts to the prince, and there was no specific amount, that is, each treasure gave 500,000 yuan of genuine brocade, silk, and yarn.
Yun'er decided not to buy anything else in Shanghai, since Hangzhou is the hometown of silk, it is better to go to Hangzhou to buy it, and I regret buying too much brocade in Shanghai.
Serious Grandma also suggested buying brocade, silk and yarn in Hangzhou. It's a serious uncle who has to trouble going to Hangzhou. Serious grandparents are troublesome, but other people's uncles are ...... Yun'er felt a bit excessive.
The serious grandparents said: "You must stay at my son's house, you must not stay in a hotel, there are everyone in the hotel, and the bedding is not clean." There are also two villains who must be in a good environment.
Seeing Yun'er's indifference, he said, "Don't see outside." It's not that you can't afford to live in a hotel, it's really what grandma said, that kind of place is very complicated, everyone has it, you still have a child, if something happens to such a cute baby, you don't regret it? ”
As soon as Yun'er heard it, she said, "It's better to trouble your uncle, right?" But we have to pay a fee. ”
"You're just a matter of a few days, what's the fee? First buy brocade silk yarn or something in Hangzhou, and then go to Suzhou, the quality of brocade silk and yarn in Suzhou is not worse than that in Hangzhou, and they all have their own characteristics. There is a kind of mountain fog veil, like the fog on the mountainside, so thin that it is almost invisible, and when you wear it, you feel that there are bursts of smoke on your body, ethereal, misty, and non-existent. It's not easy for you to come here, they all say that there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, isn't it good to visit Suzhou and Hangzhou to keep some souvenirs? Don't be in a hurry. There are more varieties of rain and fog small commodities here, so choose a little more to go back. ”
Serious and hospitable, Yun'er is very grateful, but she is really in a hurry to go home, she has never been out for a year and has not gone home, thinking of her father, her mother, Xuan'er, and Fujin. It should be said that she is worried about her as a woman supporting a palace, and nothing will happen. These days, I often dream of seeing Xuan'er crying and seeing my mother crying. I don't know why the money in exchange is so forbidden to be spent, and the dry spending is not clean!