Before departure, Yang Liufang brought his notebook and listed the materials he needed to buy at once. This time when he came to Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative, he wanted to buy all the sofa coverings including S-shaped tension springs, small tension springs, sponges, round cap nails, etc. of all materials. So as not to spend most of the day going to the city to purchase just for a small amount of materials. In order to show the majesty of the owner of the sofa, he also chose tiger-skin coral velvet fabric as the surface layer of this sofa.
Yang Liufang returned to the factory with the newly purchased materials and began intensive production. After the old tension spring was removed, he readjusted the direction of the S-shaped tension spring, fixed the tension spring on the frame of the sofa with nails, and then used small tension springs to connect the fixed S-shaped tension springs to form a network structure. After doing this, he continued to try to cover the sofa with a quilt, and then sat on it to try. He felt much more comfortable, and the hooked springs no longer moved around due to uneven force. The joy of success gave Yang Liufang the urge to finish the sofa in one go.
Since the most complex internal structure has been completed, the next step is to make the surface layer and cushion layer. As for the underlayment, Yang Liufang initially thought that the steps for cutting the sponge were very simple. At first, he just asked the workers to cut with wallpaper knives. When the work ended in the afternoon, he found that no piece had been cut out throughout the afternoon.
Yang Liufang thought that the workers were trying to do foreign work, so he was anxious to get started. After getting started, I discovered that cutting sponges is different from cutting wood. Because wood cutting is relatively hard, it is easy to do dots and lines, and it is also easy to saw. However, cutting soft sponges not only tests skills but also endurance. Be careful, a sponge is useless. But this step is very important in the sofa making process, because in addition to the elasticity of the spring, the comfort of sitting is determined by the sponge cushion. Therefore, the sponge of the substrate is related to the comfort of the finished sofa.
In July, there was no wind. Yang Liufang dotted, marked, and carefully cut according to the specifications of the sofa frame. Big beads of sweat flowed down his cheeks and back. When cutting out a piece of sponge, he found that it was like being fished out of water. Although the cutting effect was still not very good, it was much more beautiful than what the workers had cut out. When he wanted to cut another piece, he found that it was already dark, so he had to call it a day and continue tomorrow.
During normal working hours the next day, he was worried that it would be too dark to cut the sponge, so he led the workers to place two sheets of materials to ensure that other workers had work to do. Then he continued cutting sponges. This time it was better than yesterday. Smoother. But as I was cutting, I found that it was messed up and I forgot the size, so I had to start from scratch and mark the cut pieces. Because a lot of repetitive work was done, the cutting process was still very slow. It took until four o'clock in the afternoon to complete the cutting of the sponge used on the sofa.
The relieved Yang Liufang breathed a long sigh of relief and began to paste. He used a small brush to smear the already boiled cowhide glue all over the frame of the sofa where the sponge needs to be pasted. Then he found the corresponding serial number and pasted the cut sponge onto the frame.
After completing these processes, Yang Liufang is ready to cut and sew the sofa jacket. He knew that he was not good at needlework, so he deliberately left his elder brother Li Tongfu to help him, a shoe dealer who knew more about shoemaking techniques. After breakfast, the two began to measure. As soon as they started cutting, Wang Shan drove the carriage. Because no one informed him of the temporary change in his plan to go to the countryside, he came to pick up Li Tongfu as usual to go to the countryside to sell goods. Seeing the two of them busy cutting fabrics, sweating profusely, he came over and asked, "What are you two doing as a team?"
"The one who makes sofa coats!"
"Ah, these two big men don't have a good business, so they become tailors."
"Making sofas is also a business!"
"It's okay to specialize in the arts."
"Specialize in Wangqingchuan! Hahaha..." The two of them thought of this place famous for sewing, starching and washing boots and robes, and looked at each other and laughed.
"Third brother, elder brother, no, you two go there today and work hard to find two people who are good at this. We are really not good at this."
Li Tongfu, who was sweating profusely, was eager to be relieved at this moment. This seemingly simple cutting process was really different from what he imagined. He brought a basin of cold water, wiped off the sweat from his body with a towel dipped in water, put on a set of clean clothes and went with Wang Shan to Wangqing River to find a tailor.
The two of them left for a day and returned in the evening. They brought back a middle-aged couple who were very well-dressed. It looked like they had made their own clothes.
"Brother, this is the tailor Wang Shan asked the village chief to help us find."
"Hi boss."
"Hello, thank you for your hard work. Welcome to help."
"Boss, let's see what you want to do first?"
Yang Liufang brought them to the semi-finished sofa and gave a rough description. He wanted to use these coral velvet fabrics to completely wrap this thing, and it should also look good and the stitches should not be exposed. After the introduction, he took out the pictures in the magazine and asked them to look at them. The two of them looked through them by the light of the lantern and discussed them in Xizhou dialect.
"Brother and sister-in-law, it's late today. Let's eat first and continue our research tomorrow."
After dinner, Yang Liufang arranged for the couple to rest in the reception room. After breakfast the next day, without waiting for Yang Liufang to make arrangements, the two of them gestured with the coral velvet fabric on the sofa and argued from time to time. Yang Liufang saw that he couldn't help, so he asked Li Tongfu to accompany him. Anyway, he had needles and threads and so on.
After explaining, he started working on the machine. When work ended in the morning, Yang Liufang saw that they had just started cutting corduroy fabrics.
After lunch, the two began to sew. They started sewing very slowly, trying while sewing, and sometimes had to take it apart and start over. After the seat cover on the back was sewn, they put it on and tried it on. They felt it was OK, so they asked Li Tongfu to ask Yang Liufang to come over and take a look. Yang Liufang was shocked when he saw it. The newly sewn sofa back cover was just like the ones he saw in Xizhou Department Store. The tight fabric surface had not a single stitch, not even the coral velvet pattern. The splicing is all perfect. I have to admire that the ancestral sewing, starching and washing craftsmanship is truly well-deserved. This is just hand sewing, if it is a machine, it may be more perfect. Yang Liufang is completely relieved now.
He devoted himself wholeheartedly to the production of the three-seater sofa, while the sewing of cushions, seat cushions and seat covers was completely left to the couple. It was not until mid-August that this set of sofas was completed. Several people admired their works and could not restrain their joy. Since opening the factory, they finally have new products.
Yang Liufang completed the settlement for the middle-aged couple, and agreed to ask them to help next time when there was a custom-made sofa. He also asked the head of Shitou Village to send them back to Wangqingchuan. Through this incident, Yang Liufang understood the importance of professional people doing professional things, and also understood that by gathering superior resources, it would be easy to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
At the end of the month, the customer came to pick up the goods and saw the tiger leather sofa covered under the plastic sheet in the warehouse. He sat on it and tried it out. Not to mention he was very satisfied. He paid the final payment happily and promised to recommend it to his friends around him. The news that "Liufang Woodenware Processing Factory can make sofas" spread like wildfire. In addition to people from the surrounding area who have seen the world, there is also an endless stream of people from Xizhou City who come to customize sofas.
Speaking of integrating resources, he certainly did not forget to take advantage of Wangshan's proximity to Zhaomagou. He told Wangshan about planting branches and seedlings. The two hit it off. Wangshan was very willing to help and suggested that his father He is responsible for this. He still has experience in this. Just waiting for the seedlings to grow well, their village will keep half of them.
"Third brother, you are too dark, one third."
"No, Four Six."
"Okay, deal."
While Yang Liufang was busy, he had not forgotten about the raw materials. He remembered that before returning home, the head of the village, Shitou, told him that every autumn, everyone would sell the branches of the beheaded willow. Therefore, during the busy period, I consulted the head of Shitou on this issue. He asked the head of Shitou to try to purchase when he went to the countryside. As long as the baby's arm is thicker and thicker, he would come back and make a prescription for later use. This naturally solved the problem of part of the raw materials. question.
