Chapter 221: Weaving of the Line of Defense

Regarding the issue of the migrants going to stay, Wang Chuan discussed with his mother and agreed to their request to stay for the winter. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mainly, the grandmother agreed that they stayed. What she meant was not unlike Wang Chuan's plan to let them live for a while. One is to allow the unmarried women of the tribe to acquire good genes from the tall men of the migrants. The second is to befriend them and turn back and let Wang Chuan marry Ke.

In this era, children basically only know their mothers, and they don't pay attention to their bloodlines. It was basically a habit recognized by the entire prehistoric society for a woman to meet a tall man for a while. All tribes are basically encouraged. Because the child grows stronger, there is no doubt that the ability to survive will be stronger, and the tribe will be stronger as a result.

Wang Chuan didn't mind the migrants staying. Wang Chuan also hopes to gain more knowledge of the world from them. After getting along with them for a few days before, Wang Chuan tried his best to please Ke and didn't ask anything. If they could stay longer this time, Wang Chuan would naturally get more from them.

However, Wang Chuan can't be alone in this matter. Because leaving them for the whole winter, all the secrets of the tribe will basically be exposed to them. Wang Chuan doesn't care about the loss of these technologies now. When he escaped with a tooth injury, he said that the more people who knew about these things, the easier it would be to promote the development of the whole society. And the migrants are still the tribe of their future wives, and these things are passed on to them, which can be regarded as common development.

But he worries that the rest of the tribe is as conservative as ever. After the winter, I did something unpleasant, so I discussed it with my mother. It's like looking at the opinions of the rest of the tribe. If they didn't agree, Wang Chuan would rather not stay than make him unhappy when the time comes, so that he would cut off the possibility of seeing Ke again.

Since the grandmother has agreed, there is naturally no problem in leaving them.

Or they also have the consciousness of not asking about other people's secrets without people's permission. When they came, the houses in the tribe were not vacated, so they were allowed to live in the guest rooms outside the walls. For the first two days, they lived peacefully outside the wall, and although they looked around with curiosity, they were very careful not to enter the workshop dock or other places, nor to inquire about how all kinds of things were produced.

After two days, they probably got acquainted with the tribesmen, and they helped with various things, but they didn't ask much questions.

Wang Chuan secretly paid attention to the movements of the migrants for two days, and saw that they were still in order, so he had no intention of caring about them anymore.

It's a tiring thing to spread your stall too big or expect more when you're not prepared.

In terms of building the new village, Ranbula was in charge, and Wang Chuan didn't care much. But other than that, he is basically inseparable from other things. For example, how much forage should be eaten by 50 cows a day, and how much forage should be cut by children; After the tung seeds are picked, how to squeeze the oil; Do you want to dig up a little bit now, and make more wine while the weather is warm? After the Shenlong Temple was built, how to decorate it, when it was opened, and other issues, Wang Chuan had to decide to deal with them.

In addition to these, Wang Chuan also stumbled upon the slow progress of spinning and weaving cloth handed over to skilled hands.

These skilled women were indeed more skilled than the people of the River tribe, and they already knew how to spin with hand-ground shells or small spinning wheels of pottery. But they didn't know anything about the degumming process. The weaving technique is also outrageously primitive.

When Wang Chuan saw them spinning, he found that they actually tore off the skin of jute by hand and spun it directly into yarn. In the process, they didn't even know how to soak the hemp stalk in water. Wang Chuan suddenly didn't wonder that the linen cloth he saw was all hemp yellow. And there are a lot of interfaces on it. The yarn produced in this way is a little better than rubbing it directly by hand.

And the way they weave cloth is actually the same as Wang Chuan's fishing net, picking threads from the vertical warp threads to thread through the weft. In this way, the weaving method is only a dozen centimeters long in a day.

Looking at the hill-like pile of hemp straw, Wang Chuan felt that they could do it until next year just by spinning the thread. It can take two years to weave it all into cloth.

Now there is a shortage of manpower everywhere, but they are grinding foreign workers here slowly, Wang Chuan feels that it is really unbearable. Although everyone can wear animal skins in winter, I don't know how comfortable it is to wear animal skins with linen as a lining, and bandages, sails and so on all need linen. Looking at this progress, it is not possible to join yourself.

The pool dug out of the creek for everyone to learn to swim in is now no one in the water, and it is the most suitable for soaking hemp fiber. Let the women soak all the stalks they have cut down and soak them in water, and when the water has soaked the skins, they can remove them from the stalks with a gentle rubbing. Scoop up the hemp skin and hemp stalk separately. The hemp stalks were kept as firewood, and the hemp skins were transferred to the lime pond and continued to brew.

Lime foaming hemp fiber can fully remove lipids and impurities in the fiber, and has a bleaching effect. The resulting fibers are more delicate. The spun thread is naturally more delicate, and the woven cloth is naturally more compact.

Here in the lime pond soaked hemp fiber, Wang Chuan turned to the carpentry room, ready to make a spinning wheel.

In his later life, he saw a hand-spinning wheel spinning in a tourist area, and the structure of the spinning wheel probably remembers that it was composed of four parts: a wooden frame, a spindle, a rope wheel and a handle. He reasoned repeatedly, drew the schematic diagram, and then used wood to nail wooden shelves, bamboo as ingots, and kneaded wood to make wire wheels, and the handle was made of wood similar to that of a windmill.

After assembling it, I did an experiment with the hemp fibers torn off by the women's hands, and found that it was okay. Not to mention that the speed is several times faster than using a spinning wheel, and the thread made in this way is more uniform. After getting familiar with it, the thread will basically not break.

That is, when spinning, it is necessary for one person to shake the wheel and one person to continue the fiber, otherwise it will still be intermittent. However, this process can be mastered by girls over the age of 10 as long as they are taught. The tribe lacks men, but there is no shortage of such children. Wang Chuan felt that the dark life of child labor had begun.

Experiments have shown that this spinning wheel can be used. Wang Chuan immediately asked the carpentry workshop to use the method of assembly line production to produce dozens of vehicles. It may not be needed now, and when winter comes, the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law will hide in the house and spin and weave well. After the hemp spinning is finished, go back and get some wool spinning thread to make a sweater to wear. In the Ice Age, the hair of animals was long, and when leather armor was made before, the hair on it was directly burned, but now it is not done, it is scraped off, and it can be woven.

The spinning wheel was done, and Wang Chuan also got a simple loom with staggered threads out. This thing is very simple, that is, a lot of crossed wooden sticks are made into movable arms that can be up and down, and then attached to the pedal, so that the upper and lower movable arms can be staggered and moved. When using, the movable arm is staggered up and down to tie the warp, and the shuttle that binds the weft thread is passed through the middle, and then the warp is exchanged up and down, and the weft is threaded once. This is repeated all the time, and the cloth can be woven.

Of course, the efficiency of this loom is not fast, and if the line is ready-made, even if you are familiar with it, you can only weave about two feet a day. But it's several times faster than they knitted more than ten centimeters a day before. Moreover, the woven cloth in this way will not be misaligned, and it will be more dense and uniform.

In the process of extracting fiber from jute to making spinning wheels to looms, Qi has always followed Wang Chuan without taboo to watch. This is not a core technology, Wang Chuan also looks at it with her.

When the machine was ready, Wang Chuan felt relieved to sleep for three days and relax. She didn't know what she thought, so she didn't look at the women weaving, but followed Wang Chuan to Wang Chuan's bed, and she didn't come out as soon as she got into the bed.