Chapter 224 Processing Ramie (5)

[This is amazing, Mr. Driver. It seems like he can learn everything in one go. I wonder if this is a setting or is it real?]

[If this is true, it would be too amazing, hahaha, but Lao Si himself is also very hardworking and serious.]

The audience in the live broadcast room have accepted the amazing feeling brought to them by Xia Tian, ​​and expressed their good acceptance of Si Ye's learning, and some even thought, "This is what this live broadcast room is like."

For Xia Tian, ​​what she values ​​more is Si Ye's seriousness and steadiness.

He is indeed very talented, but this only makes him learn quickly. The results after he actually gets started depend on his seriousness and diligence. Otherwise, no matter how fast he learns, it will only be in theory.

She never believed in the halo of being a protagonist, but simply tried her best to run hard in her own life...

"Next is degumming. First tie a knot here on the sorted skin to prevent it from getting messy. We will take it to the river and soak it in the stream water later." After all the skins of the ramie were processed and the "scraping" was completed, Xia Tian began to degummed them.

In fact, in the traditional linen production process, there is no special degumming step, but in the modern linen making process, this step is added to increase the flexibility of the fabric and facilitate loading on the machine.

Generally speaking, it is soaked in a chemical solution of a certain ratio, and it can also be dyed or textured.

However, there is no such step in handmade production. However, in order to make better use of the fibers, soaking and kneading are required to obtain more durable raw hemp.

This process usually takes several days. In order to make use of the running water, people usually float directly on the surrounding rivers and use the water flow to wash away the impurities on the surface. When the time is up, they simply rub it a few times and then they can collect it back for the next step.

All the scraped raw hemp was simply tied up and tied onto peeled wooden sticks. A total of five sticks were tied together. Xia Tian estimated that about four pieces of cloth could be woven in the end. She and Si Ye took them to the river.

"The stream here is clear and shallow, very suitable for rinsing. Let's put it here." She chose a place where a small tree grew on the bank, placed the wooden stick in her hand on the roots in the soil, and then tied it with the ramie fiber that had just been processed, letting the fiber float naturally in the water.

This water flow rate will not wash away the ramie fibers, but can also play a natural rinsing role, and there is no need to worry about rot caused by changes in water quality.

By the time everything was done, the sun was already at its zenith and it was time to go back for lunch.

"Okay, leave it here for now. Come back and check it out in a few days." Xia Tian clapped her hands and straightened up. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and called Si Ye. "Go back first. It's time for lunch. You've worked hard today. Come back and have a snack."

Si Ye nodded, "Yeah."

…

After lunch and a short nap, the afternoon is still busy.

In addition to daily housework, there is also the preparation of tools for spinning hemp.

There is no need to make a loom now, but relatively professional tools will be needed for weaving hemp and sizing later, otherwise the whole scene will become a mess and it will really be a "tangle".

Her plan was to make a small tool for spinning linen by hand, with a large circle fixed on the handle, which would make it easy to turn and could be directly installed on a loom in the future.

(End of this chapter)