Back in the warehouse, Yang Cheng took the next step.
At this moment, Yan Lin and Xing, the two beast-eared girls, were not in a hurry. They sat quietly and waited for Yang Cheng's order seriously.
After Ji Ma, there are threads and twists.
At this time, Yang Cheng took out two more tools. These two tools were not newly specially made, but were already existing in the Qingque tribe.
One is a comb used to comb hair. Yang Cheng tinkered with this thing a long time ago. However, due to the lack of tools, the comb made was very rough. The distance between the comb bars was at least two millimeters, which is the same as some on earth. A comb spaced less than a millimeter apart cannot be compared.
This is because the wood used as the comb strips can only be made into the thickness of a toothpick with current tools, and cannot be made any thinner.
But to make the comb, the materials chosen are the hardest and hardest ones that can be found nearby. Anything that is slightly fragile can easily break.
And the biggest difference between the combs made by Yang Cheng and the combs on earth is that the comb strips are not inserted into the comb handle, but are stuck to the comb handle with thin mud cow mud.
The reason for this is because I don’t have the tools at hand.
"The comb is used to comb the ramie into lines." Yang Cheng said while demonstrating, "Just like this, after combing it neatly, you can use your nails to separate the lines and make them into strips. The hemp silk, something like this will do."
After saying that, Yang Cheng pressed one end of the hemp silk on his hand to a smooth log. This log was another common thing in the Qingque tribe.
"After making out the flax, roll one end of the flax on the wood. After rolling up a palm of flax, you can rub the flax together."
Yang Cheng first got out a few pieces of flax, and then rubbed them together. This is called thread rubbing.
The twisted thread becomes a thread and the rolled hemp ball is called a twisted ball.
"That's it, do you understand?"
Yang Cheng showed the finished results to everyone.
Yan Lin looked at the hemp silk on Yang Cheng's hand, and then at the ramie stem bark on her own hand. She felt that it would be a bit difficult to turn the stem bark into the hemp silk on Yang Cheng's hand.
"Witch, it's so complicated~"
Yan Lin tilted her head and furrowed her cute brows.
"Well, let's divide the work. Yan Lin, you and Xing will be responsible for combing the ramie into strands with a comb, and let others do the rest."
Yang Cheng decided to divide the work and cooperate, so that whoever has outstanding abilities will be responsible for their own things.
Under Yang Cheng's assignment, the production of ramie quickly accelerated a step further, and the threading and twisting were successful.
After completing this work, Yang Cheng did not let everyone continue working.
Instead, let everyone sort out the flax silk and wrap it around the wooden sticks in circles, and wait until tomorrow to carry out the subsequent processes.
The most important work at the end is weaving, turning twine into pieces of beautiful cloth.
Yang Cheng asked everyone to rest because he had to prepare another thing next.
Another day has passed.
The weather was sunny that day, and the sun was high in the sky. The warm sunshine shining on people was very comfortable, but the rise in temperature inevitably made people feel hot as well.
All the male tribesmen in the tribe were shirtless, with no clothes on their upper bodies. They wore short animal skin clothes on their lower bodies, which were still like cowhide, without fur.
As for the female tribesmen, they originally wanted to be shirtless like the male tribesmen, but when Yang Cheng discovered this sign, he immediately made a rule that no shirting was allowed.
This caused the female tribesmen to be very puzzled, but this was Yang Cheng's order. They could only accept it and endure the irritability caused by the rising temperature.
Yang Cheng saw the emotions of the female tribesmen and knew their irritability, but he had to ask them to wait a little longer. If they speed up the progress in the past few days, they can make the ramie cloth.
As for the male tribesmen, although it was cool to go shirtless, they were unavoidable from mosquito bites. After they went out for a while, their bodies were stung one after another, and they were itching.
There are also many witch dominoes in the Qingque tribe. Although Yang Cheng's healing witch dominoes cannot reduce swelling of mosquito bites, they can also eliminate some of the itching sensation of mosquito bites.
Early in the morning, Yang Chengcheng called the ten tribesmen in charge of weaving to the open space.
In the open space in the middle of the house, a wooden shelf has appeared. This shelf is very weird. The main body is a cross quadrilateral, like a foldable table.
However, this table is in a half-folded state, with only an outline and no tabletop.
On the outline of the two logs above, there are small holes arranged densely. These small holes were driven out by small nails made by Yang Cheng yesterday using the copper ore brought back from the Stone Tribe.
"This is called a reed board." Yang Cheng explained to the curious people: "You put the twine you rolled yesterday through this end and pass it out from the other side."
Yang Cheng directed the tribesmen to connect the two ends of the reed board with the twisted twine.
The finished sesame balls are divided into warp and weft threads.
The warp threads need to be reeded. The reed board is like a grate, and the yarns need to be inserted into the reed one by one. Therefore, in ancient China, there was an idiom called "Threads are threaded into the thread".
There is no need for weft threads, just roll them into a taro shape.
Since there are a lot of twine, one reed board is not enough, but it doesn’t matter, just do it on the spot.
Threading every thread is like threading a needle, requiring great patience and care. Yan Lin and Xing, two impetuous and impatient beast-eared ladies, don't have to think about it.
Yang Cheng handed over the task of inserting the buckles to other female members of the living department, and left the task of making the reed boards to Yan Lin and the others.
Yan and Lin were in a dilemma when facing the dense hemp threads. Their faces were almost wrinkled into buns.
Hearing that Yang Cheng asked the two of them to make reed boards, they instantly breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't know how to thread needles and made things according to the model, so they were very skilled.
He brought wood and took over the thin nails that Yang Cheng had made. The two of them clicked and started working vigorously.
Time passes as the sun moves away.
By the afternoon, the warehouse of the Qingque Tribe was filled with reed boards covered with twine. The twine was arranged neatly and straightly, and the regular beauty shocked the tribesmen who made them.
Even though there was not as much movement as Yang Cheng's transformation of the terrain a few days ago, this silent arrangement of lines touched people's hearts even more.
However, this is still the beginning.
Next, what Yang Cheng needs to do is to actually start weaving.
There is another step required in weaving, which is to sizing the arranged warp threads. Use early rice glutinous rice slurry to brush the warp threads several times.
Only after ramie is coated with rice paste will it become smoother and stiffer for weaving.
