Chapter 31 Weaving
The last time I got it back is not much, it looks like a pound or two.
This little bit of twine is definitely not enough to weave cloth.
But it's enough to do a demonstration experiment.
Therefore, Xu Chen gestured for his length, and then asked Ye to hold a round stick in one hand, about two feet apart, while he started to linger upwards with twine.
Ye Buming could only cooperate like a puppet.
Xu Chen walked back and forth and walked back and forth, and felt that he had almost found a bark rope to tie it to both ends of a wooden stick, and tied it to his waist like a rope sleeve, then sat down and straightened his legs and kicked the other one.
Xu Chen's series of movements made Ye inexplicably watch. He wanted to laugh but didn't dare. His thin body, which was trembling as he covered his mouth and turned his head to hold it in.
Xu Chen ignored her, but carefully sorted out the warp threads on the wooden stick in front of him, then picked out one at a time, and used a thin stick to pass through it, so that the warp threads would be interlaced.
"Wire!"
Xu Chen reached out, Ye was holding his smile and quickly took a spindle from the basket for him.
Xu Chen was shocked when he saw it. The spindle was too thick to penetrate, so he could only use a weft knife to lift the staggered warp thread high before barely passing it through.
Put the first thread in place, use a weft knife to push it tightly with the wooden stick at your waist, then use your hands to stagger the warp thread apart again, then insert the second warp stick, and then use the weft knife to penetrate the spindle as a weft shuttle and tighten it again.
With this back and forth, the weft and warp threads completed the first interlaced weaving.
Although Xu Chen's movements were clumsy and slow, and Ye Ye looked at them for no reason, the expression on his face gradually became serious.
After weaving the first round and fro and fixing the warp thread, Xu Chen picked up a wooden stick again and asked Ye to help him hang it through the upper warp thread through the upper warp thread.
This is just an experimental weaving cloth. There are only a few dozen warp threads in total, so the weaving cloth is only wide for the slap.
It is better to say it is a belt than to say it is cloth.
The one Ye helped to make is called a hexagram. With the hexagram, you no longer have to use your hands to interlaced the meridians one by one every time. When you lift the meridians gently, you will naturally be divided into two layers.
Of course, this is just the simplest plain weaving cloth. In fact, among the ethnic groups in Yunnan, Guizhou, the Miao and Bai people who still retain waist looms, the hand-woven patterns are more complex. The warp threads will be divided into many layers and are composed of threads of different colors, so they can weave gorgeous fabrics, and the clothes made are also very ethnic.
Xu Chen will definitely not make it complicated at the moment, the simpler the better.
But even this simplest weaving method is already dizzy.
So many round and flat sticks, densely packed with thin lines, were worn and pulled, so complicated that she felt a little overwhelmed. So after helping her wear the sheath rod, she stood beside her in a daze.
With the hexagram, it is much more convenient to knit it, so Xu Chen knitted it back and forth several times, and a small piece of linen slowly appeared.
Although the twine is very thin in Ye's eyes, she is more about bark rope. In fact, it is still very thick, similar to a toothpick.
It is precisely because the twine is thick, so the cloth is faster.
Xu Chen was playing this for the first time, and suddenly he became a little addicted, so he was very busy with threading and wiping. Although he was a little busy, he couldn't stop his creative enthusiasm. He immersed himself in it and slowly forgot everything around him.
As the fabric slowly appeared, Ye's eyes became wider and his face became more and more surprised, until he suddenly woke up at some point, screamed excitedly, and jumped up excitedly.
Xu Chen was shocked. When he looked up, the little mother savage had already rushed straight to the cave like a gust of wind.
Could this girl be crazy?
Xu Chen curled his lips and continued to indulge in weaving.
At this time, the sun had set and dusk was coming. Although it was still bright, it was actually not far away. A group of women had brought their children into the cave to sleep, while other adult men and women also began to look at each other in groups and then enter the cave to continue their daily pile driving activities.
Originally, Mo Ba was already asleep at this time.
But today I couldn't sleep. Ye staggered out with his arm and walked out, muttering all the way.
"Mother Baga, look!"
When he came to Xu Chen's side, Ye pointed at the cloth that Xu Chen was woven excitedly and shouted.
Mother Ba watched Xu Chen wander around in a pile of sticks and a few thin threads across the palm. She thought that Xu Chen was bored and made some toy, but after watching it for a while, she became less calm. The more she looked, the more surprised she became. The old face slowly turned into extreme surprise and excitement. Then she squatted down and touched a small piece of fabric that had been woven, and her whole body began to tremble instantly.
"Line...line...line..."
Xu Chen stopped the movement in his hand and said with a smile: "Mom Baga, Bu!"
"cloth?"
"Cloth!" Xu Chen nodded and repeated, then pointed to the fur skirt around Ye's waist, pointed to the loom on his waist, and gestured a very wide and long movement, and then made another movement around his body.
Mother Ba instantly understood and was so excited that she fell to the ground.
She finally understood what Xu Chen wanted to collect so much bark, and it turned out to be used to make this kind of thing called cloth.
Even if she had never seen or heard of this kind of cloth, it did not prevent her from thinking about the use of cloth. She could make it with simple tree bark that could replace animal skins for covering her body, so men would no longer have to take the risk of hunting so many beasts to obtain animal skins.
Although this kind of cloth seems to be very complicated to make, she looked at it for a while and even the weakest women and children could make it, and it could be made by sitting at home, which was a wealth created out of thin air.
At present, there are a large group of people, young and old, and there are so many barks at the foot of the mountain. Even if you use your spare year, you can do a lot. In the future, the entire tribe will no longer have to worry about the lack of animal skins.
Even if the animal skins need to keep warm in the cold winter, you can still use cloth to exchange with other tribes.
Just at dinner, she was still thinking about what more inventions and creations Xu Chen would have. She couldn't bear to leave the tribe, but she had no choice but to hide in the cave and cry secretly.
But in the blink of an eye, Xu Chen really invented a good thing that is more useful than pottery, and the material is a kind of bark that is everywhere in the wilderness.
When she thought that Xu Chen would eventually leave his tribe and become a man from another tribe, Mother Ba was instantly sad and immediately sat on the ground and burst into tears.
"Mother Baga!"
Ye was so scared that he was at a loss. He quickly squatted down and hugged his mother's pussy and gently stroked his back.
Xu Chen was also confused by the old woman's crying.
Why did this old woman cry again?
And it seems that it is definitely not a cry of joy, but a sadness that flows into a river.
Isn’t it just a weaving cloth, as for crying so sadly?
If you don’t want me to weave, then you won’t weave today.
Xu Chen had no idea why Moba was so sad, so he could only untie the rope around his waist and roll up the loom.
Mother Ba suddenly burst into tears outside the cave, which naturally alarmed the men and women who were sleeping or joking in the cave. They thought that something was happening, so they rushed out, but found that nothing was wrong. Mother Ba sat alone on the ground and cried without knowing what was the matter.
However, because of concern, a group of women came to comfort each other, and then helped the old mother-pa who was crying and went into the hole to rest.
Outside the cave, only Xu Chen and Ye were soon left.
All the tribe members knew that they slept late every day, so Feng and others briefly reminded them to pay attention to safety and then went to sleep in the cave without any hesitation.
After this riot, the cave became much quieter, and there was no sound of pile driving again.
Xu Chen was also in a lack of interest in weaving at this time.
...
A huge full moon rises from the mouth of the valley in the direction of the river, like a silver plate.
The clear light reflects the earth, and the world is quiet.
Xu Chen and Ye sat side by side on the big stone implicated by the cave, looking up at the moon together.
"It's fifteen!"
Xu Chen suddenly let out a long sigh.
Ye looked puzzled, but seemed to hear that Xu Chen was in a bad mood, so he gently grabbed his hand.
Xu Chen rubbed her messy hair, pointed to the moon in the sky and said, "Moon."
"moon!"
"round."
"round!"
"Full moon."
"Full...moon..."
Ye was a little more difficult to learn about combination words, so she pronounced it a little slower, and then looked at Xu Chen curiously: "Fifteen, Gaha?"
"study!"
Chapter completed!