Although the females had never seen this practice, they all believed in Fox Jiaojiao and would not let them do meaningless things.
Soaked ramie is easier to peel.
After soaking the ramie, Fox Jiaojiao taught them to pick the leaves, peel the ramie skin, and separate the skin from the stalks.
There seems to be a lot of ramie, but once the skin is peeled, it seems much less.
The peeled ramie stalks are piled on the grass nearby and dried. They can be burned as firewood and will not be wasted.
The peeled ramie skins enter the next process, rinsing.
The orc world does not have such detailed raw materials, and most of the processes are as simple as possible.
After rinsing, the ramie skins are placed on stones to dry in order to prevent them from getting damp and being unable to be preserved and used in the future.
The females are very efficient at work. After a busy day, no female complains of being tired.
They processed one-fifth of two thousand kilograms of ramie.
Even the grass is full of rinsed and dried ramie skins.
At this moment, the ramie skins are already strips of light yellow fibers, densely lying on the grass. As long as they are exposed to the sun and dew, they can be made into hemp rope.
Because ramie is processed collectively, the males also contribute, and it does not belong to the individual females, and it is also stored collectively.
At night, two males are found to guard it.
During the day, the females continue processing.
"Jiaojiao, are we going to do the same thing as yesterday?"
Feng Sheng asked with interest before Hu Jiaojiao could speak.
She was very interested in everything related to plants.
In the past, she only knew that plants could be eaten and used to treat diseases, but she didn't know that they could also be used to make clothes.
"No, I'll teach you the next steps today." Hu Jiaojiao shook her head and said that the ramie skin on the ground had been dried and could be processed in the next step.
Feng Sheng and the females all looked at Hu Jiaojiao with curiosity.
They also wanted to know how Hu Jiaojiao would make these dry things into soft clothes.
Although animal skins are thick, tanned animal skins are very soft. These ramie skins are dry and hard, and they feel very prickly and brittle.
How to wear them?
Fox Jiaojiao asked the male to help bring a large stone bucket over, put some ramie skins in it, and then poured dry sand into it to press the ramie skins heavily.
Then he inserted a thick wooden stick and shook it repeatedly in one direction.
The fibers that were originally dried into strips were entangled on the wooden stick one by one, forming a ball, which gradually became larger and larger until the last fiber in the stone bucket was entangled with it.
"This is thread. After ramie is made into thread, it can be made into cloth thinner than animal skin, and then cut into clothes."
Fox Jiaojiao explained the purpose while demonstrating.
Originally, it is also possible to twist the fiber into flax thread by hand without using tools, but that is too laborious.
With so much ramie, it is unknown how long it will take to twist it.
The thread twisted with tools is thinner, one by one, and it is also more convenient to weave cloth later.
"Then how do we make these threads into cloth? Do we do it now?" Lu Mian'er looked inquiring, with curiosity in her eyes.
"To make thread into cloth requires other tools. We can just process all the ramie into thread now." Fox Jiaojiao explained.
The females nodded when they heard it.
These processes are very simple. They can master them very skillfully after watching them once and trying them by themselves.
It takes ten kilograms of ramie to roll into a ball as big as a basketball. The females work together, half of them roll the balls, and the other half soak and peel the ramie.
In one day, more than thirty balls were rolled, and the grass was filled with rinsed ramie fibers again.
The females are familiar with it, and there is no need for Hu Jiaojiao to keep watch here. Fengsheng and Lu Mian'er are responsible for the early processing, and the other is responsible for rolling the balls, which almost does not let Hu Jiaojiao worry.
On the third day, the males set out again to pick ramie.
In this way, when the ramie is used up, new ramie will come back.
Now the most important thing for the beastmen is time.
Everyone was racing against time, not wasting a single moment.
Hu Jiaojiao originally thought that she had to wait until she had accumulated more balls of yarn before Hu Qinglu finished making the textile machine. Unexpectedly, before the second group of beastmen who had picked ramie came back, she received good news from Hu Qinglu.
The textile machine is made!
Hu Jiaojiao immediately came to Hu Qinglu's yard.
Compared to the last time she came, there were obviously more things in the yard this time.
It's just that the things that were piled up before have been replaced, and now the ground is filled with bits and pieces of wood of all sizes.
The most eye-catching of them is a wooden textile machine placed in the middle of the yard.
"Little sister! You are here, come and have a look, I have made the textile machine you wanted, what do you think of it? Does it look good?"
Hu Qinglu had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing Hu Jiaojiao coming, he couldn't wait to pull her to see.
The textile machine was made according to the drawings given by Hu Jiaojiao.
Looking from the side, it is a right-angled triangle bracket, and the front is a rectangle. Hu Jiaojiao didn't quite understand the structure, but it looked very delicate, and every detail of the textile machine was polished very smoothly.
At least there is no problem with the workmanship, and there will be no hooking.
Hu Jiaojiao looked around the textile machine and nodded.
"Third brother, you are amazing. You made the textile machine so quickly. I thought I would have to wait a long time."
She couldn't help but exclaimed.
Third brother is really a crazy craftsman.
When Hu Qinglu heard this, he was so excited that the corners of his mouth almost curled up to the sky.
"It's nothing, it's not difficult, it's very simple."
He raised his chin a little arrogantly, not at all humble.
After that, Hu Qinglu couldn't wait to say:
"Little sister, try it and see if it works. If it doesn't work, I'll modify it."
He is still very dedicated.
It would be too embarrassing if the tools he made looked good but were useless, and he would never allow such a thing to happen.
"Okay."
Hu Jiaojiao smiled, put down the package she was carrying, and took out several balls of yarn.
Before coming here, she had studied the use of the textile machine.
Although she was not very proficient and had never tried it, she had plenty of time and memorized it several times a day. She had already firmly memorized every step in her mind.
As a person, we are not afraid of being stupid or ignorant, but we are afraid of being lazy and unwilling to spend time learning.
Hu Jiaojiao knew this very well, so she never slacked off.
"Little sister, how do you do it? Tell me and I'll help you."
Hu Qinglu saw that the ball of yarn was so big and the weight must be not light, so he took it in his hand diligently.
With him here, he couldn't bear to let his little sister do the heavy work.
Hu Jiaojiao thought about it. The textile machine was made by Hu Qinglu, and he knew the details of the textile machine better than her. It would be better to have him help.
So she nodded.