Chapter 153: Spinning and Weaving
Su Yan didn't have much knowledge related to weaving in his mind, but in Su Yan's opinion, weaving was not a difficult thing, and the most difficult thing was how to improve textile efficiency.
After spending a day, a piece of linen cloth the size of a palm appeared in Su Yan's hand, which was woven from twine with a diameter of two or three millimeters thick.
The twine is made of No. 3 hemp rope, and the No. 3 hemp rope is directly rubbed out with hemp fiber, which is the thinnest hemp rope in Su Yan's hands.
To the step of weaving linen, Su Yan found two wooden sticks and a few bone needles as tools, the two wooden sticks were placed in parallel, and then the two wooden sticks were connected with twine, which was the vertical line of the linen, and increasing the number of vertical lines was to increase the width of the linen.
After that, Su Yan bolted the twine to a bone needle, which was the horizontal line of the linen, and the bone needle shuttled up and down in the dense vertical line with the horizontal line, and the number of rows of the horizontal line increased, which meant that the length of the linen cloth increased.
In this way, a small piece of linen cloth was born in Su Yan's hands, perhaps this linen cloth only the size of a palm may be the first linen cloth in the world, although this linen cloth is very rough.
Xiaohua Xiaoyue curiously snatched the linen cloth from Su Yan's hand, put it in front of her and observed it carefully, Su Yan looked at this small piece of linen, and her thoughts continued to drift.
Linen cloth is easy to weave, the difficulty is how to improve the efficiency of linen prevention, Su Yan took a day to weave a palm-sized linen, although there is the first time to weave linen by hand, but even if Su Yan is proficient in the steps of weaving linen, he can't weave much linen in a day.
Weaving linen cloth is divided into two steps, the first step is spinning, and the second step is weaving.
Spinning is to use hemp fiber twisted into fine twine, the finer the twine, the better, although the finer the twine reduces the weaving efficiency, but the spun linen will become more delicate.
The advantages of products made of linen are extremely high strength, moisture absorption, heat conductivity, and air permeability, while its disadvantage is that it is not very comfortable to wear, and the appearance is rough and stiff, but this is not absolute.
The earliest linen unearthed in China has about ten threads of longitude and latitude (i.e., vertical and horizontal) per square centimeter.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many ramie fabrics were very delicately woven, and some could even be comparable to silk, and the powerful people at that time often used exquisite linen fabrics as valuable gifts for each other.
According to the record of "Zuo Chuan", in the twenty-ninth year of Xianggong (549 B.C.), Qi Xiang Yan Ying personally gave Zheng Xiangzi ten horses of Qi domestic white longitude and red weft silk weaving colored silk, and Zi Chuan gave a large number of Zheng domestic snow-white ramie clothes as a gift to Yan Ying, the warp on this linen cloth reached 280 per 10 centimeters, and the weft yarn per 10 centimeters reached 240, and the fineness was not inferior to modern linen products.
For example, Su Yan's first hand-woven linen cloth is already less than fifty vertical and horizontal lines per ten centimeters, which can only be described as rough.
Roughness is rougher, but the weaving efficiency is higher, if you want to weave a slightly more delicate linen, the reduction of textile efficiency is only one of them, and the hemp twisted with hemp fiber should also be a little thinner, which also takes a lot of time.
Su Yan didn't expect to reach the standard of such delicate linen cloth in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it would be good to be able to reach ten vertical and horizontal lines per centimeter, this level of linen made of clothes can already replace the clothes made of plant leaves worn by the Dragon tribe in summer, if the linen cloth is rougher, wearing clothes made of this linen will only make the tribesmen uncomfortable.
If you want to improve the efficiency of spinning and weaving, it is a troublesome thing for Su Yan, ancient China can use a spinning wheel to improve the efficiency of spinning, and a loom to improve the efficiency of weaving, Su Yan can also make a simple spinning wheel and loom by groping, the key is the lack of tools, if there is a saw in your hand, it can be called an artifact in the primitive era.
However, now Su Yan has no saw in his hand, and if he wants to make a saw, he has to mine and smelt metal ore first, and he hasn't even found a metal vein, so the rest naturally doesn't need to be mentioned.
"Ugh." Su Yan sighed, and put aside the matter of improving the efficiency of spinning and weaving for the time being, but next year Su Yan will still let a small number of female clansmen try to weave linen, first using No. 3 hemp rope to weave cloth, such linen cloth cannot be made into clothes, but it can also be made into sacks for stuffing, and when the clansmen are proficient, they can try to use finer hemp to weave cloth.
Things have to be the same, even in the winter you will feel a little cold in the tiled house, the work of weaving nets can be carried out in the winter, and the more delicate work of weaving linen will be laborious, so you can only wait until next year.
Winter has passed for most of the time, and perhaps some primitive tribes have already eaten up the winter food they have collected, so they can only brave the cold to go out hunting.
Hunger is just a problem, and the sudden cold winter will freeze to death many people, and there is also a cruel good news that the tribesmen are frozen to death, and the stored food can be eaten by the tribesmen for a longer time.
Food is scarce in winter, some beasts have gone crazy with hunger, and even primitive people are targeted by them, the total population of the dragon tribe is more than 1,000, and the place where the dragon tribe lives is a big target in the eyes of the beasts, attracting many beasts to come.
With the fence in the way, the beasts naturally could not rush into the dragon tribe, and some of the beasts that met started a battle, and the winner may survive the winter, or he may be killed and eaten by other beasts because of injuries in the battle.
The world outside the walls is not the roar of all kinds of beasts, the people of the dragon tribe have become accustomed to it, and they don't feel much about these roars, if there is no roar, they will feel strange, and they can't say that there is an enemy to attack the dragon tribe.
This winter, Su Yan once again showed his strength to the clansmen, defeating many clansmen in a row, and in the Dragon Tribe, Su Yan's strength was probably in the top ten.
The dragon tribe has the highest force, and its huge strength is unmatched, if you want to defeat Dali, even if Su Yan's strength has entered a period of rapid improvement, I am afraid it will take two years.
Xiaohua Xiaoyue's strength should not be underestimated, but Su Yan did not have the idea of letting Xiaohua Xiaoyue fight with the clansmen, physical contact is required in the fight, this is something that Su Yan does not allow, if you change from fighting to competition, you can try.
The numbered clansmen have successively obtained the pottery ID card made by Su Yan, they officially became the clansmen of the Dragon Tribe, and their names have also changed from numbered to famous, their surnames are not "monkeys", Su Yan took out the surnames of the hundred families, and the surnames such as "Zhao Qiansun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang" were selected at will, and the surnames were determined for the new clansmen according to the blood relationship.
Clans may affect the Dragon Tribe in the future, and the diversity of surnames starts now.