That day, I saw Lan come over and say that she was going to get married, and Dona actually wanted to say it, although it wasn't for clothes. But after listening to Guan Lin's words, it was not good to say that this matter should be taken by the men, and Dora thought that what Guan Lin said made sense from her heart.

Dona didn't plan to take the initiative to the end, and in the end she didn't even say anything about Chengyi, but fortunately, Chengyi still heard Guan Lin's statement, and after hearing it, he hurriedly ran over, saying that he was also going to get married, and looked at Dona while talking, for fear that Dona would say no. Seeing that Dona just glanced up at herself and continued to work, Chengyi's heart relaxed.

Although they all agreed to make clothes for the clansmen who want to get married, Guan Lin still has a little affection in her heart, the man should take the initiative to say it himself, and he didn't say it himself, but he didn't say it himself, this must be a guy who is not afraid of big things, if these twenty or so people's clothes are really made by themselves, it is estimated that they will have to do it until the spring of next year, there is no problem in doing it, the key is that they are waiting? Thinking of this, Guan Lin also smiled for her belly.

It's to be done, but not by yourself, but with a group of women. Since it is for marriage, of course it is red, it is really a must-have for our marriage in Greater China, since we have to establish rules, we have to be regular. The main problem now is how to dye the linen red.

Red is still very common in nature, especially in spring, with red flowers and red leaves, as well as red roots and stems. It's very convenient to dye the flowers red in spring, but it's winter, and it's not early winter, so it's really hard to find red flowers and leaves.

Dyeing technology as a technology is also slowly developed, ancient humans are weaving at the same time, the development of dyeing technology, its history can be traced back to prehistoric times. Greater China is the first country to have textiles and develop dyeing technology. According to the "History of Chinese Dyeing and Weaving", the cave people in Zhoukoudian, Beijing, began to use red iron oxide mineral pigments as early as 15,000 years ago, and used bone needles to make clothes. Painting the cave where they live is a sign that prehistoric humans knew how to use paint.

According to anthropologists' speculation (and there is not enough evidence to confirm it), it started with mud staining and charcoal ash. When people were still wearing animal skins, they moved around the river and got on the mud in the river. The minerals in the mud are attached to the hides and are not easy to fade; The color of the mud is different, and the color of the dyeing is also different.

Charcoal dyeing is to use the black charcoal left over after cooking is the best dye. Although the fastness of these dyes is not very high, they will fall off when patted; However, it is easy to take the material, as long as it is painted again. At this time, the concept of dyeing was not yet mature, and it only stayed at a limited degree of dyeing; In other words, dyeing in a broad sense is a cumulative coloring method that includes smearing. These dyes are mineral or animal-based, and most of them are made from plant-based dyes.

China's dyeing technology began to have relatively complete facilities in the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the regency of Zhou Gongdan, there were six officials in the government agencies, including heavenly officials, local officials, spring officials, summer officials, autumn officials, and winter officials. Under the Heavenly Officials, there is a position of "dyeing", which is specifically responsible for dyeing work; In addition, there is a special department in charge of the collection of dyeing materials under the local officials. For example, in the "Zhou Li", it is recorded that the official positions such as "palm dyeing grass" and "dyeing people" who are responsible for dyeing silk and silk are recorded in the "Zhou Li", which influenced the Qin Dynasty to also have the official position of "Dyeing Department", and the subsequent dynasties also set up "Dyeing Department", the Tang Dynasty also set up "Dyeing Academy", and there was also the post of "Dyeing People" in the Dyeing Academy. In the recent Qing Dynasty, there were "Blue Indigo Institute" and "Jiangnan Weaving Bureau".

With the continuous improvement and development of dyeing technology, the colors of dyed textiles are constantly enriched. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, only the "Book of Songs" mentioned about the color of the fabric "green clothes, green clothes and yellow li" ("Shao Feng? Green Clothes"), "The Suitability of Tie Clothes" ("Zheng Feng? Tie Yi"), "Qingqing Zijin" ("Zheng Feng? Zijin"), "Silk Clothes and Scarves" ("Zheng Feng? Out of its East Gate"), "Plain Clothes Zhu Xiang" ("Tang Feng? Yang Zhishui"), "Zai Xuan Zai Huang" ("Feng Feng? July), etc., as well as woolen fabric dyeing "毳衣如菼", "毳衣如璊" ("Wang Feng?"). Big car"), etc., can be said to be colorful. Later, the dyeing technology, especially the dyeing technology of different dyes, continued to develop, and in the Western Han Dynasty, the color spectrum can be seen from the textiles unearthed from the No. 1 Han Tomb of Mawangdui in Changsha. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the dyeing process was greatly developed, taking the embroidery unearthed in Astana, Xinjiang as an example: the background color is red, yellow, leaf green, emerald blue, royal blue, lake blue, purple, lotus lotus, bronze and so on. In the Ming Dynasty, the dyeing chromatography was more finely divided, and only the red was dyed red, lotus red, peach, silver red, water red, wood red, etc. ("Tiangong Kaiwu"). The dyeing production activities of the Ming Dynasty also flourished, in addition to the royal special "blue indigo office" to serve the feudal ruling class, there were also various private dyeing workshops in the people, there were thousands of dyeers in Suzhou alone ("Ming Wanli Record" volume 361), and there were different divisions of labor in the dyeing workshop, such as the blue fang, the red fang, the red drifting fang, and the variegated color workshop.

In fact, as a special soldier, Guan Lin is still very familiar with dyes, and when he used to train and go out on missions, he often painted some on his face, one in the east and one in the west, and there were any colors. The main function of this is to camouflage and prevent insect bites, these colors are harmless to the skin, dissolved in water, the ingredients are basically colored mud, also known as flower mud, mainly using non-toxic, aromatic, non-polluting clothing plant fiber materials development, do not hurt the face.

Regardless of the other colors, the most important thing for Guan Lin now is to find the red dye, which can dye the linen red. And Guan Lin also knows some red dyes, in addition to plants, such as hematite and cinnabar, which are red dyes known to civilized societies, the key is where to find them?

When it came to where to look, Guan Lin suddenly thought of Wizard Qi. I remember once seeing the wizard paint a little red on the center of the eyebrows, just like now when the baby is young, parents like to paint such a red on the center of the eyebrows, saying that it is a beauty mole. Although the wizard was not painting a very large lump, Guan Lin still noticed it. At that time, I wanted to laugh when I saw it, thinking that a wizard is a wizard, and I always want to make myself different from ordinary people.

Wizard Ke may have also noticed the change in Guan Lin's expression at that time, anyway, he hasn't painted it since that time, or he may have felt that the great goddess Lin didn't paint anything, so he had to paint something. (To be continued.) )