Volume 1 The Building of the City Chapter 74 The Beginning of the Handicraft Industry (Proofreading)
Spare parts for spinning wheels and weaving machines are produced in a standardized way.
This will help to build and repair the machines on a large scale, and after this evening, the last part of the loom will be all made, and then 10 looms can be assembled at the same time.
The spare parts of the spinning wheel had been taken out by Wang Tian, and after a while, a hand-spinning wheel had appeared in front of him.
The iron still needs to be hot, and then Wang Tian assembled all the remaining 9 spinning wheels in one go, looking at the rows of spinning wheels in front of him, Wang Tian seemed to see the arrival of the manual era.
After the hand-spinning wheel was assembled, Wang Tian decided to give it a try first, and only after gaining experience in using it himself could he pass it on to everyone, so that everyone in the tribe could use it proficiently.
First, a thin piece of straw rope is found as an introduction, one end of the straw rope is tied to the spindle, and the other end is fully intertwined with the plant fibers drawn from a ball of twine.
Try to pull it gently with your hand, and the village material that is wrapped up can already be pulled by the straw rope without being disconnected.
The plant fiber material used for spinning is connected and fixed on the spindle, installed on the hand spinning wheel, and the strip-shaped hemp ball pulled out of the hemp ball is pinched in the left hand, and the handle of the spinning wheel is shaken with the right hand.
With a creaking sound, the rope wheel of the spinning wheel drove the spindle on the left to rotate rapidly.
When Wang Tian held the height of his left hand and the level of the spindle rod, he quickly wound the hemp silk together, and then dragged it backwards while putting the hemp.
Wang Tian tried to spin the spindle and wrap the thread while pulling the hemp out of the twine, but he found that this would not succeed at all.
The spindle on the spinning wheel rotates very quickly, and after the strips of hemp that were previously extracted by hand are stirred into threads, the hemp balls in the hands are quickly stirred together.
The first attempt failed.
Although the plant fiber of this rope grass can replace hemp, its fiber is still thicker than hemp, Wang Tian's operation method, used to spin soft and very fine cotton is feasible, and it can be done while drawing silk while making thread.
But it is still not good for hemp materials, let alone this kind of rope fiber that is thicker than hemp.
In fact, Wang Tian didn't know that even if cotton was used to spin the yarn, if the spun yarn was used to weave cloth, the cotton ball would be drawn into strips of appropriate thickness first, and then the strips of cotton silk would be placed on the spinning wheel to make yarn.
The yarn made in this way can be used for weaving with uniform thickness of the whole thread, and it is difficult to extract it so evenly in advance, so it is suitable for making rope.
After thinking about this truth, Wang Tian took a ball of hemp again, and began to pull out the same thickness and size of hemp from it.
This work requires meticulousness and patience, and if you are too impatient, it is difficult to do uninterrupted extraction.
After the hemp strips were extracted, Wang Tian started again, this time very smoothly, when the height of the left hand was at the level of the spindle rod, the spindle rotated rapidly, driving the hemp strips in his hand to be wound together in one direction.
At this time, continue to drag the hemp (strip) backwards, and raise the hand when the spun thread reaches the longest (the position pinched by the left hand), so that the twisted twine and the spindle appear at an angle.
At this time, the rotating spindle is no longer to drive the twine to do its own winding, but will wrap the self-wound twine around the spindle and store it on the spindle.
Then, the left hand holding the hemp stick descends back to the level of the spindle rod and continues to spin a section of thread......
This operation was carried out repeatedly and continuously in order to complete the spinning of a thread, and Wang Tian stopped after spinning the hemp strips drawn from his hand.
Ling'er beside him looked at Wang Tian's operation seriously, looking eager to try.
"How's it going, have you learned?" Wang Tian asked with a smile.
"Brother Tianzi, have fun, hurry up and let me try" Xiao Ling slapped his face and responded to him happily.
"You wait a minute, I'll make a split-line reel out, so it's more convenient," Wang Tian said.
He assembled a spinning wheel again, using the spinning wheel's driving wheel, the rope pulley, as a turning device for extracting the hemp sticks, turning the rope wheel with his right hand and pulling back with his left hand while releasing the hemp.
In the end, it was found that this was not much faster than manual extraction, and there was also uneven thickness, so I had to give up in the end.
Wang Tian asked Ling'er to try to extract hemp strips by hand, and the thickness of hemp strips is directly related to the thickness of the twine spun, which requires experience to be able to control the desired thickness.
The thread that Wang Tian spun just now was a little too thick, this time he reduced the material of the hemp strip by 1/3, and then handed it to Xiao Ling to start extracting, requiring that the materials used in each section be about the same.
After a ball of twine is used up, she teaches Ling'er how to connect the hemp strips, which is actually to wrap the hemp strips at the junction of the two balls into a mess again, and then extract them again.
After the two balls of hemp were extracted, the hemp strips could no longer be wrapped around his hands, so he took a one-meter-large basket and put the hemp strips in the basket and coiled them into a circle that did not cross them. It looks like a marshmallow populace.
Then explained the operation method to Ling'er in detail, and Xiao Ling was already impatient to turn the rope wheel at this time.
Not to mention, the work of spinning really requires talent, and it is also the first time, Wang Tian does it as if it is a cassette, but Xiao Ling does it in one go, without any sense of stagnation.
When Ling'er was spinning, she watched the even and fluffy cotton strips being continuously pulled out from between her slender thumb and index finger, continuously, thin and long, and there was a pleasure like artistic creation.
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder will feel very comfortable looking at it, the rope wheel that shakes at a uniform speed, and the spindle that is constantly spinning, scrambling to make a buzzing and humming sound.
It was like playing orchestral music, and it was like a girl singing softly. The rhythmic music is as harmonious, quiet, and beautiful as a song.
Wang Tian gave a thumbs up without hesitation and praised Ling'er's excellent performance.
Next, he used the remaining 9 spinning wheels to ask Xiao Ling to teach 6 pregnant women how to spin thread, and Wang Tian himself specially extracted hemp strips to supply materials for several people.
Spinning requires technical skills, the speed of the shaker, the speed of the thread, and the cooperation between the two, are all exquisite.
If the fit is not good, the thread will be broken; When the car shakes faster and the thread is slower, the hemp strips will be twisted into a hard rope, no longer hemp yarn, and will be knotted together.
The combination of shaking the car and drawing the thread is not easy to be properly and become a skilled skill that is memorized by the body, and it takes a lot of effort.
It takes constant practice to get the body to remember this rhythm and eventually become instinctive.
These beginners behaved differently, and most of them often didn't know where to go, and one moment this person's hemp was twisted into a rope, and the other person's hemp yarn was knotted again, and everyone was so anxious that they were sweating profusely.
Some of them are irritable and even angry with spinning wheels for this, but this is really not about spinning wheels!
In this regard, Wang Tian had to let Xiao Ling teach him hand in hand again, and then let the impatient person calm down first.
These are all pregnant women, if they are angry and angry, Wang Tian really can't bear the responsibility.
After the spinning person is calm, before spinning again, coordinate the movements of the left and right hands, exert appropriate force and grasp the speed and slowness.
She laughed happily when the twine between the thumb and index finger of her left hand was finally extracted as if it were endless.
She didn't care about the other people's teasing of her, and after one success, she began to enjoy the fun of spinning a little.
is the so-called peeling off the cocoon, watching the mess become evenly thick in his hands, and the continuous strings are indeed a kind of enjoyment for Wang Tian, who is a little obsessive-compulsive.
After a while, they all took from the spindles bundles of tassels, which were either uniform or of different thicknesses.
The joy of reaping the fruits of their own labor is incomparable to any material enjoyment.
Looking at the different thicknesses of linen yarn in front of him, Wang Tian still nodded with satisfaction, who doesn't have the first time, with this beginning, it will naturally get better and better in the future.
The important thing is that Wang Tian now has nine rolls of linen yarn, and with these increasing quantities, with these raw materials, the loom can also be started.