"Little flower, cut it like this." Su Yan said to Xiaohua with a drawing, which depicted a short-sleeved skirt.

Xiaohua looked at the drawing, looked at Su Yan's gaze again, nodded slightly, and prepared to cut the sky blue fabric in her hand.

As for Xiao Yue, looking at the two children from the side, Xiao Hua's craftsmanship in making clothes is a cut higher than Xiao Yue, Su Yan's family's clothes are basically cut out of Xiao Hua, which fits very well, and Xiao Yue can only work on the side.

Yes, as the king of the Dragon Tribe, Su Yan's clothes were sewn by his own wife just like the clothes of other male clansmen.

The fabric placed next to Xiaohua, in addition to the blue cloth, there is also white cloth and black cloth, and now the fabrics of the clothes worn by Su Yan's family are all gray and white, and the gray and white are also the original color of the linen cloth spun out, with the washing again and again, the linen cloth will become whiter and whiter, but there is still a certain difference with the white cloth placed next to Xiaohua.

These cloths of different colors had just appeared in the Dragon Tribe, and Su Yan had gathered dozens of female clansmen to bleach or dye the gray-white linen cloth that had just been spun.

White cloth is the simplest, bleaching can be, other colors of the tribe is more troublesome, need a variety of dyes, in addition to white cloth is the basis of other colors of cloth, can not be directly dyed with gray and white cloth.

Blue cloth with blue indigo.

"Etymology": "Indigo, blue-blue dye, is made of the juice of blue grass leaves and the precipitation of water and lime, called water indigo, another kind of indigo, dry and hard into blocks, dried and mashed with blue grass leaves. ”

Blue grass generally refers to plants that contain blue juice to make blue indigo as a dye.

Song Yingxing of the Ming Dynasty wrote "Tiangong Kaiwu Zhangshi Third Blue Indigo" and said: "All five kinds of blue can be indigo." Tea blue is woad blue, and the roots are live. Indigo, Ma Lan, Wu Lan and so on are all sprinkled. Recently, there are small leaves of indigo, commonly known as amaranth, and the species is better. "Where indigo is made, those with more leaves and stems go into the cellar, and those with less go into barrels and jars. Soak in water for seven days, and its juice will come naturally. Five liters of lime per stone of water slurry, stirring dozens of times, indigo letter is knotted. ”

Black is also known as foot green, Baotou green, boiled and dyed with chestnut shell or lotus seed shell, drained water, added iron sand (iron-containing mineral sand), soap alum (commonly known as black alum, metal sulfate), put it in the pot and then cook.

For the time being, there are only white, sky blue, dark blue, and black cloths, and there will be more colors such as red and yellow in the future.

Dyeing cloth is also a relatively complex process, which is mainly divided into five steps: color mixing, boiling cloth, dipping and dyeing (boiling and dyeing), rinsing and grinding cloth.

Color toning is mainly to mix the shades of monochrome, such as blue can be dyed with a variety of blues such as emerald orchid, sky blue, sea blue, hair blue, dark blue, etc.

Boiling cloth is to put the cloth to be dyed into a pot of water to boil, the purpose is to make the cloth soak in water as soon as possible, remove the "pulp force" of the warp (caused by the boiling line before the cloth), make the cloth easy to color, dyeing evenly and firmly, cloth into the front pot, the water temperature can be boiled to 50 degrees to 60 degrees.

Dipping and dyeing is to soak the cloth into the color of the tank to color, boil the cloth with "pulp force" from the pot and take out the water to dry, put it into the dyeing vat to soak for an appropriate time, let the white cloth fully absorb the color in the dyeing solution, take it out and put it on the wooden board, slightly drain the floating water and then twist it with a wooden stake and wooden stick, and then put it on the drying rack to dry.

After boiling to remove the pulp force of the cloth into the color of the dyeing vat, soak for half an hour, take out the water and dry on the cloth rack, after the wind blows, the cloth will gradually change color.

Dip dyeing and boiling are different methods of the same step, and different dyes use different methods.

Rinse: After the dyed cloth is dried, it should be rinsed with water to remove the floating color, generally rinsed two or three times, rinsed clean, wrung out the water and put on the shelf to dry.

Rolling cloth is also called kicking cloth, in order to make the cloth smooth and moist, bright color, dyed and dried cloth needs to be milled, which is equivalent to modern ironing.

Spray some water on the cloth to be rolled to make it slightly wet, and then roll it on the rolling cloth shaft, put the wooden shaft of the rolled cloth on the flat wooden board, and then put the rolling cloth stone horizontally on the cloth roll, perpendicular to the rolling cloth shaft, the cloth miller holds the wooden frame, steps on both ends of the rolling cloth stone, alternately forced, and rolls the cloth rolled back and forth on the roller until the cloth is flat and smooth, and there are no wrinkles.

In this way, various colors of cloth can be dyed, the only thing missing is the dye of the dye, the more types of dye, the more colors of the cloth can be dyed.

In fact, dyeing cloth can already be carried out in the dragon tribe, and the most important step is to mix the dye of the dyeing cloth, if the dye is not qualified, the color will fade directly when washing the cloth.

Previously, the Dragon Tribe did not have surplus labor to carry out the project of dyeing cloth, and at the same time, cloth of different colors was not a necessity for the Dragon Tribe, so Su Yan was not in a hurry to take out the project of dyeing cloth.

Last year, the loom was manufactured, and the higher weaving efficiency of the loom freed up a large number of laborers, so Su Yan made the dyeing project one of the plans to be carried out this year.

From the beginning of spring, until the end of the second month of spring, the first batch of blue cloth was dyed, and now the third month of spring is nearly halfway through, and there are many blue and black cloths, as well as white cloths based on blue and black cloths, and more are produced.

A variety of colors of cloth can be said to be important, or it can be said that it is not important, before the appearance of a variety of colors of cloth, there is not much impact on the dragon tribe, now the appearance of a variety of colors of cloth, but it can bring some changes to the dragon tribe.

Ordinary clansmen still wear the most gray-white cloth clothes, Wu and Wu disciples wear white cloth clothes, patriarchs and hunting team members wear black cloth clothes, and household personnel wear dark blue cloth clothes.

Changing clothes of different colors, you can immediately distinguish the "occupation" of the clansmen, or the clothes of different colors more clearly determine the status of each clan.

It took Xiaohua nearly a day to sew the first sky blue long skirt, Xiaohua and Xiaoyue were about the same size, and Xiaoyue couldn't wait to change into a long skirt.

"Husband, am I good-looking?" Xiao Yue, who was dressed in a long skirt, spun around in place, and the skirt floated slightly.

"Beautiful!" Su Yan exclaimed.

Looking at Xiao Yue in a long skirt, Xiaohua seemed to think of how she would look in a long skirt, she would not compete with her sister for this long skirt, so she could only wait for tomorrow to sew a long skirt out.

Originally, the two sisters didn't have much feeling about the long dress, but when they heard their husband's praise, the two sisters quickly changed their minds and thought that they would be very beautiful in this long dress.

A woman's beauty is to show off to the man she likes, the men of the Dragon Tribe like strong women, Xiaohua Xiaoyue's "thin" body is undoubtedly ugly in their eyes, but for Su Yan, they are willing to keep their figure all the time.

Of course, figure does not represent force, and the "thin" Xiaohua Xiaoyue is definitely the two with the highest force among the female clansmen of the Dragon Tribe.