Chapter 15: A Stitch and a Thread

In later generations, cooks were responsible for cooking and eating, but in this era there were a few pregnant women in the caves, who had to do more than just smoke and grill food and handle meat. For example www.biquge.info learn to handle all kinds of fur, such as rubbing ropes of different sizes, mending broken nets, feeding babies, drying food, and so on.

Wang Chuan is also going to teach them how to sew clothes......

However, it must be said that the work efficiency of children is indeed not compared with these adults, although they do many and complicated things, but the efficiency is still much faster than a bunch of children.

The harvest of the tribe brought with it the same large quantities of various skins. The weather is getting colder and colder, and sooner or later these skins will be turned into clothes and worn on the body. After the meat was processed, it was urgent for these people to start sewing clothes.

Wang Chuan didn't allow them to tear a hole in the leather and put it around their necks as clothes. If you don't keep warm like this, the skin hanging randomly will be scraped by the thorny branches in the mountains and forests at any time, and even the leather rope will not be left in the spring. This is simply a shameful waste.

Now that he was free, he was able to design the leather into fitting, warm clothes, and by the way, it became his current job to teach the women how to sew them. Or rather, he felt that it was a little cold to go out in his pants in this weather.

If you want to make clothes, needles are essential. Now that the tribe has harvested abundantly, the habit of swallowing bones has also changed, and only bone marrow is eaten. Now that there are countless bones left in the tribe, it is easy to pick a suitable bone fragment and polish it into a bone needle.

There is no shortcut to polishing bone needles, you can only grind them slowly on the stone. Grind to a sharp end and smooth to the other. Then a notch was made at the larger end with a sharp stone chip for hanging the twine. That's pretty much it.

It's not wrong to have a plan before you do things. There are almost as many crocodile skins in the tribe as there are other hides, and everyone likes soft and hairy hides, yes, but crocodile skins can't be wasted. It's not the time to wear fur now. Therefore, if the men of the tribe make clothes, they should first use crocodile skin. This thing is strong and wearable, and it is also good to use as leather armor after wearing it. The rest of the hides were left to the women and children.

My mother's body is relatively weak, and when I get up in the morning, I hear her coughing, so I make her the first clothes. The animal fur in autumn is extremely dense and bright, and the fur of the big cat is the softest and warmest among the animal skins, and this skin is given to her.

Measure the size of the mother with hemp rope, and then draw a simple line with charcoal strips on the leather. When there are no scissors, cut straight lines and use sharp-edged stone leaves to cut the skin little by little along the line. If you want to make a round hole in the neck, you can only use a sharp stone to smash it little by little. The shoulder part is set aside, the excess on both sides is smashed and cut, and the excess below is left alone, and can be kept as a skirt.

The bone needle is still a bit laborious to pierce the skin, pick a sharp one from the broken bone as a drill, fold the cut skin in half and place it, and then fix the distance in turn.

The hole pierced in this way will be relatively large, and the stitches will be wide, but there is no way, and the current twine is also thick, and it is too small to pass.

Both sides are sewn, and a sleeveless dress with fur is ready. Don't say whether it looks good or not, put it on for your mother first, and see if it fits first.

Mother put it on and made a tiger roaring mountain forest, how can she be so powerful and domineering? Originally, I wanted her to take it off and sew her collar with the corners, but seeing that she was having a good time, I'll talk about it next time, anyway, it won't be cold when you wear it like this in this weather.

Crocodile skin is large and small, and the width is generally narrow, so you can't wear it in this form if you dig a hole and wear it. The men's crocodile leather coat Wang Chuan is ready to be made into the form of a vest, which is convenient for work, and when it is hot, it can also untie the placket to dissipate heat, and when the leather armor can also block the vital parts of the torso. As for the lower body part, using crocodile skin as a dress Wang Chuan feels that he can't accept it psychologically, and it's too hard to make pants. They're used to it anyway.

The crocodile skin of the vest is cut into four pieces, one for the back, one for the shoulder, and two pieces of the same size for the left and right plackets. It is still sewn with a piercing thread, but men wear rough clothes, so they should be sewn twice. Now there are no buttons, and a few small holes are worn in the front placket, and a small piece of hemp rope is tied as a button.

After sewing the vest, Wang Chuan tried it himself, it was a bit big, and his shoulders were not handled well. But it's better than digging a hole and wearing it straight on your head. Well, this one will be given to the strong cow, just to warn him not to eat it.

There is crocodile leather, and I must make crocodile shoes. The leather on the back of the crocodile is rougher, so it is more suitable to make the sole, one layer is too thin, and it is good to use two layers of crocodile skin and a layer of buckskin, so that it is strong enough and softer at the same time. Of course, it is better to boil a little bone glue as the sole of the shoe, but now there is no tool for boiling, so I will not consider it for now. Use the belly part of the crocodile to make the upper and upper. These shoes are meant to be worn in winter, so they should look like boots. To be strong and prevent water ingress, the pinholes around the sole should be thin and dense. This is more time-consuming, anyway, it's not too cold now, so I'll do it slowly.

The pants were also made in the style of sweatpants in later generations, which allowed the women in the tribe to sew in advance, saving them from having no pants to wear when it was cold.

The style was done again, and Wang Chuan learned it as if everyone in the tribe had done it. Even if you can't, it doesn't matter, the person in charge of stringing around me has learned everything.

This child is Qiao's daughter, thin and small, with big eyes that are smart and clear. She's just as clever as Qiao. And she is the smartest of all the tribal children. All kinds of things that Wang Chuan has talked about and taught, except for all kinds of traps and rope sets, she can quickly remember them, and she can make others understand them in her own way.

After she learned how to tailor clothes, the other women of the tribe taught them through her. It is easier for women to communicate with women, and it is easier for them to understand the child's expressions.

From this day on, the women of the tribe will have to be busy. If you want to survive the winter warmly, these clothes sewn now are obviously not enough. There was a lot of leather in the back, and the weather was cold, and the sleeves of the woman's clothes had to be sewn up. Men should also have wool pants. Leftovers, Wang Chuan was going to teach them how to sew hats or scarves. For those who are old like their mothers, they should also have a set of socks and gloves. She's only in her forties, and she can't just be broken in the winter. Take care of it, Wang Chuan still wants her to live for 40 more years.

Presumably with these preparations, this winter's winter won't be so difficult, right?