Volume 1 Chapter 378: Teach them the craft of dyeing cloth
The merchant ship was sailing all the way. Su Muyan used her eyes as a camera, carefully capturing the scenery along the coast in her mind.
From time to time, I would compare them, and from time to time, I would carefully observe these images in my mind to see what parts I could change.
So I walked, walked, looked and looked all the way, and finally found a problem!
Su Muyan stood on the deck of the merchant ship, looking out at the canal. The water was emerald green, and the weeping willows on the bank were slender. Some beautiful families also planted flowers in front of their courtyards.
Those flowers are so beautiful and colorful, they look so beautiful.
But the problem Su Muyan discovered was: "In this ethereal scene, everyone is generally wearing gray clothes."
Whether it's a coarse cloth shirt or a brocade silk ribbon, the colors are not particularly bright and beautiful, not to mention the glossiness and comfort.
This discovery was like a flash of inspiration, suddenly attacking Su Muyan's brain.
Yes! How could the world, with its fireworks and beautiful scenery, be gray?
Finally I discovered that the reason was that everyone's clothes were too monotonous, which only means that the textile technology of that era was not very good.
In other words, the textile technology of this era may not have been fully developed, and it is also very likely that their dyeing skills were not very good.
Although there is no way to replace productivity with machines now, and there is no way to take out all those machines, but at least I must let them wear colorful clothes, let them see the colors they really like, and how good they look on themselves.
Let them no longer have to stick to gray, white and black. The color of time should be colorful and beautiful, just like the green weeds, or the colorful flowers, or the rising sun, or the color of the sun slowly setting on the seashore. It should not be just gray, white and black.
After realizing that he had figured out the problem, he immediately began to consult his own classics.
That’s right, when I had nothing to do, I bought some books about food, accommodation and transportation from Modern, and put them in my space, and occasionally I would study them.
So the first thing I wanted to do was find a book about dyeing and weaving techniques, even though I didn’t know how to dye cloth.
But since you have this advantage, you can check it out and there must be a way to make the world more colorful.
So, without thinking anymore, they stood on the deck, looking at the gray crowd in the distance. The 20 people hid in their own rooms on the ground floor day and night, entered the space and searched bit by bit for knowledge and experience about dyeing technology or how to change the color when dyeing cloth.
While absorbing these nutrients every day, they would also take out the cloths they brought on board to study how to color them and how to fix the colors after coloring.
It’s like being completely immersed in my own world, repeating the same routine every day: looking up knowledge points, doing experiments, looking up knowledge points, doing experiments, and looking at feedback.
The days passed by little by little, and after more than a week of hard work, you finally discovered that you could dye your hair into colors other than gray, white and black.
The moment it turned yellow, I became really excited.
In fact, dyeing cloth is not particularly complicated, it’s just that people here don’t have the concept of overlapping colors.
Su Muyan carefully organized the experiments she had done in the past few days and the knowledge points she had learned, stroke by stroke, and wrote them down on a piece of paper.
These things should be handed over to people who are good at them to study them bit by bit. Otherwise, no matter how much you instill them in them, it will be of no avail.
So they planned to hand it over to the people in the palace after returning, since they had a special textile bureau.
Hand it over to those people, and then use those people to send members out regularly to convert people from the society to the church. In this way, it will benefit the common people of the world and make their lives gradually more colorful.
Of course, dyeing cloth cannot be accomplished overnight. I have strong learning and comprehension abilities, and my horizons are very broad, so I am not bound by the coordination of various colors.
But others may not be able to learn it in a short time. But no matter what, as long as they are willing to slowly figure it out and put in the effort, and with the help of these things I have written for them, they will surely develop much faster than they would naturally.
This merchant ship has been out for more than a month, and it will take about five or six days to return to the end of the closed loop, which is also the starting point.
When the time comes, I will give these things to those people and ask them to study them carefully. They must witness the first batch of cloth being successfully presented in front of their eyes, so that they can also feel that happiness.
Su Ran had known about this matter for a long time, so he ordered people to make preparations early, whether it was the white base cloth or the large wooden barrels needed for dyeing cloth, all were prepared in advance.
They even built several pools of running water to accommodate the frequent water needs during the dyeing process.
In this way, there will be no need to use those heavy wooden barrels to carry water bucket by bucket, which is a very huge project.
How could a queen mother not be happy to see her own country producing these things first? Although the emperor was still relatively young, this land would be handed over to him in the future. She would rather hand over a very prosperous place to him than a country with dissenting ministers and displaced people.
Su Muyan truly regarded this small world as her own parallel time and space, so under the premise of no influence, of course she wanted to devote her best abilities to this land.
After the palace's embroiderers worked day and night to produce the first batch of green fabrics.
The moment the green cloth was successfully dyed, everyone became really interested in this dyeing process!
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