"King, we have done it." A middle-aged clansman ran up to Su Yan and said excitedly.

"What has been made, plow?"

"No, it's not a plow, it's a loom."

"The loom is made! Walk! I'm going to see. ”

Su Yan immediately stood up and strode towards the carpenter's workshop, and the middle-aged clansman followed closely behind Su Yan.

The carpenter's workshop is located in the southeast area of the source city, and the jungle in the south of the source city was the closest jungle to the source city, and the carpenter's workshop was established in the southeast region, and it can quickly obtain wood from the jungle in the south, but it is a pity that the jungle is now burned down by the blood tiger tribe, and it is expected that it will take more than ten years or even decades to restore the appearance of the jungle.

Su Yan walked very fast, it can be seen that Su Yan attaches great importance to the loom, originally Su Yan thought that it was a new manpower plow to create, if the manpower plow is suitable can be manufactured in batches, next year the dragon tribe planting area will be greatly increased.

The importance of the loom is a little worse than the manpower plow, after all, the importance of clothes is not as important as the food, but the loom is also very important to the dragon tribe, the manpower plough must be there, and the loom must also be had.

When the dragon tribe first used twine to weave cloth, they only used a few sticks and bone needles as tools, and began to weave linen, tying yarn one by one to two sticks, and then tightening the yarn held by the two sticks, and using their fingers to weave it in an orderly manner like a mat or net.

This weaving method is very inefficient, because of the emergence of the spinning wheel, the processed yarn is becoming more and more fine, and then use this method to braid, not only labor-intensive and soft yarn is very easy to entangle, bring difficulties to the operation, and then slowly improve in a few years, and the waist machine will appear.

The original loom was the "loom", also known as the waist loom, which was different from the traditional loom, which did not have a frame.

On the waist machine, there are two horizontal logs equivalent to the cloth rods and warp beams on the modern loom, a weft beating knife, a weft insertion thread, a warp dividing stick with a thicker diameter and a thinner heald rod.

When weaving, the weaver sits on the ground, ties the two ends of the warp yarn to two horizontal logs, one of which is tied to the waist, and the other is stepped on by the foot, and the warp tension is controlled by the waist back, and a natural shed is formed by using the warp stick, and the weft is drawn with a silk and a machete.

When weaving the second shuttle, lift the heald rod, make the lower warp become the upper layer, form the second shuttle, erect the machete to fix the shed, the weft is inserted, and the machete beats the weft. This is how weaving is carried out in a continuous alternating cycle.

Replacing the bracket with people, the name of "waist machine" also comes from this.

The original waist weaving adopts the heald rod, the warp rod and the weft beating knife, which realizes the vertical and horizontal interweaving of the warp and weft yarns, and weaves the silk threads into cloth by opening the weaving mouth up and down, threading the weft yarn left and right, and tightening the weft yarn before and after, and constituting the basic fabric.

The advent of the waist machine greatly improved the weaving efficiency, which made the woven cloth gradually replace the position of leaves, plant leaves and animal skins, most of the time people wear clothes made of cloth, and only when it is cold will they wear clothes made of animal skins.

However, in the future, as the number of wild beasts decreases greatly, so will the number of people who can wear animal skins.

Su Yan guessed that if there was a tribe on the south bank of the river that ended in textiles, it was very likely that this tribe would have a waist machine.

Although the waist machine makes the weaving efficiency higher, it is not enough, the dragon tribe also needs a loom with higher weaving efficiency, so as to free up more manpower to do other things.

The structure of the loom is much more complicated than the structure of the human plow, Su Yan did not have much knowledge of the loom, thinking that it would take several years or even longer to manufacture, but he did not expect the surprise to come so suddenly.

The carpenter's workshop consisted of a number of houses, some of which were used to store timber and some of which were workshops, where carpenters toiled and made pieces of wood into their own shapes through multiple processes: looms, human plows, bows and arrows.

Su Yan soon came to the house dedicated to the loom, the house was piled up with large pieces of wood, all kinds of tools, plus the middle-aged man who followed Su Yan into the house, a total of three carpenters and six apprentices, and the most important thing was the loom in the center of the room.

Su Yan has been to this house many times to check the manufacturing progress of the loom, and in the past few years, many defective products have been manufactured, and today is the first time to be "invited" to come, which shows that the three carpenters themselves think that the newly manufactured loom is qualified.

"King, this is our latest loom, it's ......"

Listening to the middle-aged carpenter's explanation, Su Yan's eyes were all on this loom, which was very different from the waist machine.

The loom in front of it is a bit similar to the bias loom of the Han Dynasty, the body of the bias loom is divided into two parts: the base and the frame, the front end of the frame is provided with a seat plate, the rear end is obliquely connected to the rectangular frame, and the two pillars placed at the rear end of the frame make the frame and the horizontal frame at an angle of 50 to 60 degrees.

The frame is a rectangular wooden frame, the upper end is provided with a warp beam, the lower end is provided with a cloth rolling shaft, the warp beam and the cloth rolling shaft are also provided with a shaft tooth to control the amount of warp and the amount of cloth rolling, the middle two sides of the frame are respectively equipped with a "vertical fork", and its end is equipped with a heald rod that resembles the shape of a "horse head", and the looper is placed on a central shaft.

The front end of the "horse head" is tied with a heald frame, the rear end is equipped with a warp dividing wood for dividing the warp into upper and lower layers, and there are two foot levers of different lengths under the machine base.

When weaving, the weaver sits on the machine, steps on the long pedal rod, and when the power is transmitted along the rod to the lever part of the heald horse head, the horse's head leans forward and stilts, and the heald frame that connects the bottom warp immediately raises the bottom warp to the position of the original warp, and at the same time, the central axis also compresses the surface warp accordingly to form a triangular shed, and then the shuttle can be used to send the weft and the work of the bamboo reed beating the weft.

When this work is completed, the foot leaves the long pedal and steps on the short pedal, so that the heald frame descends, the bottom warp loses its tension and returns to its original shape, and at the same time, the front end of the "horse's head" hangs down by its own weight, so that the face warp also returns to its original shape, ready to accept the next opening movement.

When weaving a piece of cloth, you can pull the shaft teeth at one end of the warp shaft and put the warp, while rotating the shaft teeth at one end of the roll shaft to tension the warp yarn, continue to weave.

There is still thread hanging on the loom, and there is already a small piece of linen spun by the loom, which should be a few carpenters trying to the loom, and after determining the textile effect of the loom, the good news made by the loom was hurriedly reported to Su Yan.

"You guys use this loom and I'll take a look."

"No."