Although the females had never seen such a practice, they all believed that Fox Jiaojiao would not let them do anything meaningless.
Soaked ramie is easier to peel.
After soaking the ramie, Hu Jiaojiao taught them how to pick the leaves, peel the ramie skin, and separate the skin from the stem.
The ramie looks like a lot, but once you peel it, it becomes a lot less.
The peeled ramie stalks are piled on the grass nearby and dried. They can be burned as firewood so that they are not wasted.
The peeled ramie skin enters the next process, rinsing.
The orc world does not have such detailed raw materials, and most of the processes are kept as simple as possible.
After rinsing, the ramie skin is placed on stones to dry in the sun to prevent it from getting damp and unable to be preserved and used in the future.
The females are very efficient at work, and after a busy day, none of them complained of being tired.
They processed nearly one-fifth of two thousand kilograms of ramie.
Even the grass was covered with rinsed ramie skins.
At this moment, the ramie skin has become strips of light yellow fibers, densely lying on the grass. As long as it has been exposed to the sun and dew, it can be made into hemp rope.
Because ramie is processed collectively and the males also contribute, it does not belong to the females individually and is also stored collectively.
At night, they found two males to guard the place.
The females come back during the day to continue the process.
"Jiaojiao, are we going to do the same thing today as yesterday?"
Without waiting for Hu Jiaojiao to speak, Feng Sheng asked with great interest.
She is very interested in anything related to plants.
In the past, I only knew that plants could be eaten and used to treat diseases, but I 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, the ramie skin on the ground has been dried and can be processed to the next step.
Feng Sheng and the females all looked at Hu Jiaojiao with curiosity.
They also wanted to know how Hu Jiaojiao would turn these dry things into soft clothes.
Although animal hides are thick, tanned hides are very soft. These ramie skins are dry and hard, prickly to the touch, and also loose and fragmented.
How do I wear this
Fox Jiaojiao asked the male to help bring a large stone bucket over, put some ramie skin in it, and then poured dry sand into it to press the ramie skin down heavily.
Then reach in with a thick wooden stick and pound it repeatedly in one direction.
The fibers that had been dried into strips were wrapped around the wooden stick one by one, forming a ball that gradually grew larger until the last fiber in the stone bucket was wrapped around 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."
Hu Jiaojiao demonstrated and explained the purpose.
Originally, you can also use your hands to twist the fibers into twine without using any tools, but that would be too laborious.
There is so much ramie that I don’t know when it will take to produce it.
The threads pounded out with tools are thinner, strand by strand, and are more convenient for weaving 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.
"It takes other tools to turn thread into cloth. Now we just need to process all the ramie into thread," Hu Jiaojiao explained.
The females nodded when they heard this.
These processes are very simple. They can master them skillfully by watching them once and trying them themselves.
It takes ten kilograms of ramie to roll into a ball as big as a basketball. The females work together, with half of the females rolling the ball while the other half continue to soak and peel the ramie.
At the end of the day, more than thirty balls of thread were rolled up, and the grass was filled with rinsed ramie fibers again.
The females are all familiar with them, so there is no need for Hu Jiaojiao to stand here and keep watch. Feng Sheng and Lu Mian'er are responsible for the early processing and pounding the yarn balls respectively, so Hu Jiaojiao hardly has to worry about anything.
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.
The most important thing for the orcs now is time.
Everyone is racing against time and not wasting a single moment.
Hu Jiaojiao originally thought that she had to store more balls of thread before Hu Qinglu could make the textile machine. Unexpectedly, she received good news from Hu Qinglu before the second batch of orcs who went to pick ramie returned.
The textile machine was made!
Hu Jiaojiao immediately came to the courtyard on Huqing Road.
Compared to the last time I came, there are obviously more things in the yard this time.
The only difference is that the things that were piled up before have been replaced, and now the ground is filled with miscellaneous pieces of wood of all sizes.
The most eye-catching one is a wooden loom placed in the middle of the yard.
"Little sister! You are here, come and have a look. I have made the loom you wanted. Take a look at it. How is 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 doesn’t quite understand the structure, but it looks very delicate, and every detail of the textile machine is polished very smoothly.
At least there is no problem with the workmanship, and there will be no hooking of the lines.
Hu Jiaojiao looked around the loom 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 exclaim in admiration.
The 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.
"What's the big deal? It's not difficult at all. It's very simple."
He raised his chin a little arrogantly, without being humble at all.
After saying 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 not practical, and he would never allow such a thing to happen.
"good."
Hu Jiaojiao smiled, put down the package she was carrying, and took out a few balls of thread.
Before coming here, she studied how to use a textile machine.
Although she was not very proficient and had never tried it, she had plenty of time and practiced it several times a day, and had already memorized every step firmly in her mind.
In life, we are not afraid of being stupid or ignorant, but we are afraid of being lazy and unwilling to spend time learning.
Hu Jiaojiao knows this very well, so she has never slacked off.
"Little sister, tell me how to do it, and I will help you."
Hu Qinglu saw that the ball of thread was so big and must be very heavy, so he took it in his hand attentively.
With him here, he couldn't bear to let his little sister do the heavy work.
Hu Jiaojiao thought about it and realized that the textile machine was made by Hu Qinglu, and he knew the details of the machine better than she did, so it would be better to have his help.
Then he nodded.