Chapter 37 Sewing
The fire in the kiln was raging, and the second kiln bricks were officially put into the kiln to burn.
In addition to thousands of bricks, there were also a lot of limestones placed in it.
Under Xu Chen's grand plan to move bricks, a section of the wall began to slowly appear around the kiln factory.
The changes in the kiln factory naturally made the entire tribe happy.
They have never seen such a huge project.
Therefore, every morning and evening, many people would come to watch for a while before they would be satisfied to work on other jobs, especially a group of children, who started the outdoor carnival mode, and ran around inside and outside the kiln factory all day long.
According to Xu Chen's plan, this is the first phase of the project.
The kiln factory was first closed, mainly to ensure the safety of the kiln factory. After repairing the wall and installing the gate, the kiln workers could live in the kiln factory for a long time without having to arrange hunters to guard it every day.
After a relatively safe base is available at the foot of the mountain, you can start the second phase of the project and choose a suitable place to build a house near the kiln factory.
However, the tribe is indeed too small and has insufficient staff. In addition, Xu Chen and Gu Heju have three and a half-old children, and there are less than twenty men.
In addition, there are no better tools except wooden hoes and vine baskets.
In addition, the wooden hoes and vine baskets are not strong and several are damaged almost every day, which greatly drags down the speed of the project.
The entire kiln factory has a wall of less than 200 meters long, and it has been less than half of it in ten days.
Fortunately, after his continuous command and training, a group of men worked very quickly, and gradually began to accumulate a lot of experience and became skilled in their skills.
For example, a few kiln workers can do the work of making pottery tiles without Xu Chen’s guidance, and they can do it well, put them into the kiln and take care of the heat.
Although the pottery tiles are made very rough, Xu Chen cannot make higher requirements. He can only accept everything and ensure that it can be used first.
Several men also started building walls and learned to use ropes and hammers to observe neatness.
Therefore, although the project progress was slow, the first batch of primitive human craftsmen began to appear slowly before they knew it.
The changes at the foot of the mountain are getting more and more obvious day by day.
The changes on the mountain are also obvious.
After gradually reducing the collection, a group of women focused most of their energy on spinning and weaving cloth.
The bark soaked on the river beach has been fermented and rubbed into coarse numbness. After drying, the bark is carried up the mountain.
With enough rough numbing and becoming more and more skillful in the movements, women are spinning and weaving faster and faster.
More than 20 women spent all day except taking care of the tribe’s people to eat and drink, and almost all their energy was spent on spinning and weaving cloth. More than ten days have passed, and more than ten pieces of linen cloth have been woven.
These linens are about two feet wide and four feet long, just twice the distance between feet and waist, and exactly twice the distance between the hand stick and the roll.
Although the fabric weaving in this method is relatively short, it is more convenient. There is no need to wrap a long warp thread on the warp stick first, but roll it up and down. After weaving, it will be a circular cloth barrel.
With cloth, you can naturally start making clothes.
But troubles arise naturally.
No scissors cut, no suitable sewing needles.
Therefore, after the first kiln bricks were released, Xu Chen entrusted the work of building the kiln factory to other men in the tribe, focusing on cutting cloth and sewing clothes.
As late autumn approaches, the weather becomes cooler and cooler. Although the temperature in the environment is very high and the sun is still very strong at noon, it has dropped by more than ten degrees in the morning and evening compared to when I first crossed. The thick skin and rough flesh of this savage body could not bear it anymore.
A dirty fur skirt barely covered her butt and eggs all day long. She went from wind and rain, and she had never changed it. The smell was so irritating that the ants could be poisoned.
But this is about to become a thing of the past.
If you don’t have scissors, then use a stone knife to cut it slowly. Without needles, it won’t hurt him.
I found a few slender bone pieces from the garbage dump and slowly polished them on the stones.
After two days of slow processing, a bone needle with a diameter of two millimeters was made.
This needle is ten centimeters long and slightly bent. The most difficult thing is not to polish it, but to needle the nose.
Most of the time, Xu Chen competed with the needle nose because drilling was too troublesome. He used a sharp wolf tooth to drill through for more than an hour, and several bone pieces were damaged before he finally succeeded.
Xu Chen didn't know the history of human needles, but according to the tribe's situation, there was no concept of sewing. He simply cut the animal skin into the required size with a stone knife, and then tied it around his waist with a tree bark or vines. He basically doesn't take off except for taking a bath in the river.
The moment the needle was successfully made, Xu Chen burst into tears.
Finally, I was going to say goodbye to the fur skirt with rich patina on my body.
A brand new linen was cut off the warp thread and laid on the stone slab.
First measure your waist with a rope, then use a wooden stick to make a simple ruler, use a ruler to measure the width of the cloth, and then use charcoal to draw marks.
All this was not learned without a teacher, but he used the accumulation of the 5,000-year history of China to explore. Although he had seen an old lady in Guizhou weaving cloth, he had never seen handmade clothes.
Therefore, cutting the sewing is a completely new invention and challenge for him.
While Xu Chen was busy, Mother Ba and a large group of women gathered around to watch nervously.
They originally thought that after the cloth was woven, they could surround themselves directly like animal skins.
But it doesn't seem like this, and Xu Chen obviously has other arrangements and plans.
If it were in the past, Moba would have arranged according to her own plans.
But now she needs Xu Chen’s support, or she thinks Xu Chen will pay better attention than her.
It seems that right now.
But Xu Chen's complicated process made all women confused, novel and extremely nervous.
It seems that the clothes Xu Chen mentioned are far more difficult than spinning and weaving.
Of course, Xu Chen was also nervous and nervous under the watch of a group of women.
Although he only planned to make a pair of big shorts on his debut, he was a little afraid to start after half an hour of tossing back and forth on a piece of cloth.
This fabric is precious. If it is cut by a few random cuts, it will not only be embarrassing, but also a group of women will feel distressed.
However, when a new wife goes to bed, there are always times when she gets bayonet.
So after hesitating for a long time, Xu Chen finally gritted his teeth and ordered the two women to help pull the cloth, and then began to cut it on the stone.
The twine is very thick, so the linen is very strong, and the stone knife is not sharp. If you want to cut the cloth open, it is like a blunt knife to cut meat. In the heartache and screams of a group of women who can't bear to see, the brand new cloth was finally cut open by his gritting teeth.
Then cut again...continue cutting...
Finally it was cut into pieces and turned into a pile of fragments and fragments of scraps.
"Chenga..."
A young woman looked at a piece of good cloth that had been woven after several days, and turned into pieces, and couldn't help crying.
Although the other women didn't cry, they looked very uncomfortable. Some people were rubbing their eyes gently, and even turned their heads and couldn't bear to look at them again.
Mother Ba held the spindle tightly in her hand, and the wrinkled old skin twitched gently. After hesitating for a long time, she held back what she wanted to say.
Since she woke up after fainting, she knew Xu Chen’s changes very well.
Recently, the changes Xu Chen has brought to the tribe have been even more upside down.
She believed that Xu Chen had his own purpose in doing this.
Xu Chen understood the mood of a group of women, but could not explain it because it was too complicated. As the saying goes, seeing is true. Only when he makes this pair of big shorts can everyone understand his destructive behavior.
The cloth cut is as stuttering as a dog's chewing, and the fabric is not woven in a tight and fine manner, and the edges after being cut are a little loose. Therefore, when sewing, these edges must be carefully sewn with threads, otherwise it will be easy to break off the thread and cracks.
Pick up the bone needle and thread the thread, then Xu Chen sat on a stone, picked up two pieces of fabric and started sewing it slowly.
Looking at Xu Chen's movement of threading needles, a group of women understood the purpose of coming over the past two days of forgetting to eat and sleep, grinding and drilling. Seeing him easily sewing two pieces of rags together with needles and threads, he felt extremely shocked and surprised while not understanding.
As Xu Chen slowly sewed the two pieces of fabric together, some older women seemed to understand Xu Chen's thoughts, and their sad emotions began to become excited.
This is a brand new tool, with needlework, fabric and skins that can be sewn into any desired shape.
Chapter completed!