Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 477 The Loom

Chapter 470 Eight Looms
He took out the hand drill, removed the drill bit and turned it around. At present, the only standard he can make is the diameter of this small drill bit.

Just do it, follow the method of making bamboo nails, make a board for scraping bamboo strips, and then pull out many thin bamboo round sticks.

Then I found square wooden strips, nailed a frame, took off the two long ones, put them together, marked the scale, stacked them together and punched holes, then cut the thin bamboo sticks to a suitable length, and nailed them to the wooden frame , which results in a grid.

Using the same method, another grid is obtained, and the grid with longitude lines is ready.

Next you should have one grid fixed and one move.

This requires two shelves, one with the grid fixed and one with rails that allow the grid to move.

Well, a heavy object needs to be tied under the moving grid, which is connected to the crosspiece under the weaver’s feet through pulleys. When the weaver steps on it, the grid will rise, and when the weaver loosens his foot, the grid will automatically fall down again.

After finishing the twine, A Yin also came to see Li Junge's design, and at the same time made an idea based on the Miao family loom he had seen.

The two were thinking about the design, and it was almost noon when Li Junge went to work as a carpenter and A Yin did the cooking.

First make two large n-shaped frames, and then one is lying down, and the other is inserted into it at ninety degrees, and the four legs are connected.

In this way, there is a crosspiece in front of the weaver, and an n-shaped frame stands more than one meter away in front.

Then place the first grid a little above the bottom of the n-frame and fix it.

Next is the one at the back. Install a pulley in the middle of the crosspiece of the n-frame, and the groove of the pulley is facing the spinner.

One was also mounted on the rung in front of the weaver.

Find a wooden stick slightly wider than the n-shaped frame. When it is placed behind the n-shaped frame, the heads on both sides are just blocked by the two vertical beams of the n-shaped frame.

Tie a hemp rope to both ends of the wooden stick, then make a loop in the middle of the hemp rope, tie a long hemp rope to the loop, pass two pulleys, and tie a loop on the end of the thread , can be stepped on by the weaver to control the height of the stick.

Drill two more holes from the stick, the position is exactly symmetrical to the center of the stick, and the width is exactly the width of the grid.

Hang the grid on the two ropes, making sure it is level.

Let Ayin sit in front of the shelf and measure the length of the long rope. When Ayin's feet land on the ground, the middle of the rear grid coincides with the upper edge of the front grid.

Then tie two ropes under the back grid, tie the ropes to wooden sticks, tie ropes to the center of the wooden sticks, and hang stones.

The rock never hits the ground, and the twine on the pulley block is always under tension.

A horizontal round stick is added in front of the weaver's rung, and there is also a row of small bamboo teeth on the round stick, which are opposite to the round sticks on the grid.

This round stick can be rotated, and can be driven by the wheels on both sides of the loom. Later, a pay-off device will be made behind the loom. The weaver can operate the wheels on both sides to turn the stick to roll up the cloth.

There is also a brake device on the wheel. In fact, it turns out a circle of holes. There are also holes corresponding to the corresponding positions of the shelves on both longitudinal sides in front of the weaver. When a few bamboo sticks are inserted into it, the round stick beams will be locked. turn.

One of the simplest weaving tools is manufactured.

After eating, the rain still didn't decrease, so the two of them didn't care about it, and started to add thread to the loom, and started weaving for the first time.

Lock the round stick in front of A Yin and make sure the small teeth are facing upwards. Li Junge tied twine in the middle of the fixed grid grid, then signed it on the round stick in front of A Yin, and wound two circles around the first small tooth , and then pull it back, pass through the gap next to the tied round stick on the fixed grid, and tie it to the middle of the first wooden stick of the mobile grid.

In this way, one root is tied well, and ten groups of fine linen threads form twenty warp threads.

Then Ayin raised his foot slightly, and the meridians on the moving grid fell below the meridians of the fixed grid.

A Yin passed the shuttle in his hand from right to left, and Li Junge handed her his ruler. A Yin used the ruler to compact the first weft thread, then took out the ruler and stepped on his feet, and the warp thread on the moving grid was lifted to Fixed above the grid meridians.

A Yin put the left shuttle back to the right, and a great moment came, the textile industry was born on the uninhabited island for the first time!
A Yin flew the shuttle back and forth excitedly, laughing loudly: "Erpi! It's really possible! It's really possible!"

Li Junge laughed loudly: "Then it's time to rain blood and make ghosts cry at night. This is another great invention no less than Cangjie's invention of characters!"

Ayin was weaving the tape excitedly, and Li Junge circled around Ayin and the loom. There are many things that need to be improved!
The first step is to change the place where the feet are stepped on to a crosspiece. The crosspiece is fixed on the shelf by two n-shaped wooden blocks. It has a certain range of motion, but it is not too large, so that the weaver does not have to lift his feet all the time to move. When the grid is put down, as long as the foot is loosened, the grid will automatically fall down, but the middle part will not fall out of the lower edge of the fixed grid, because the crosspiece connected to it is blocked by the upper frame of the U-shaped wooden block up.

Such a situation is that the meridian on the moving grid will always move back and forth between the upper and lower sides of the meridian on the fixed grid, but will never exceed the upper and lower edges of the fixed grid.

This greatly liberated Ayin's legs and made them less tired.

The second step is to widen the original frame. With a stick of [-] mm and a gap of [-] mm, ten groups can only weave a tape with a width of [-] cm. It must be increased by at least eight to ten times to obtain A washcloth.

The third one is difficult. To allow the grid to be released, it is necessary to drill a hole in the middle of the grid, which can not only permanently fix the warp at the center of the bamboo stick of the grid, but also allow the wire to be released.

This requires a drill with a diameter of only [-] mm, and a smaller hand drill.

Then there is the winding spool, 160 warp threads, [-] spools if expanded eight times, and the spools also have a brake device.

Don't be afraid of not being able to do it, but be afraid of not being able to think of it. Now that you have thought of it, then do it.

Start with the easiest, the small pressure drill.

The drill body is not difficult for Li Junge. The big drill bit drills holes on the bamboo board, and the bamboo nails are scraped thinner to form the drill pipe. A small flywheel is attached to ensure that the drill is vertical when it goes down.

The key is the drill.

There were also two screws, but Li Junge couldn't bear to misuse them. He took a nut and burned it red in the charcoal fire. First, he carefully closed the hole in the middle of the nut with a stone hammer, and then hammered it hard to flatten it.

At this time, A Yin had already finished knitting the part in front of her, which was a foot-long tape.

The girl didn't give up, and started to stand beside the loom, pulling the cable with her left hand and sending the shuttle with her right hand to continue weaving.

Li Junge didn't bother to take care of her, since she was idle anyway.

After several machinings, the nut is hammered into one piece, thick in the middle and thin on the sides.

Li Junge pulled out the machete, put the iron piece on the cutting board, put the part for chopping on it, asked A Yin to put a wooden stick on the saw teeth, and beat with another wooden stick.

With a few clicks, the iron sheet was knocked open by the extremely hard blade, with only a little adhesion.

Li Junge gently bent the iron sheet up and down with his hands, dividing the iron sheet into two halves.

Then continue, sticking to the first knife, turning the iron plate over, leaving two millimeters, and putting the knife in place, Ayin excitedly put the wooden stick on the sawtooth again.

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Don't panic, go, bring me my wet underwear!"

Ayin's eyes widened: "What? You want to dress so formally?"

Li Junge was speechless: "If you want to hit such a small drill bit and fly far away with a single knife, should you go find it or should I go find it?!"

Only then did Ah Yin understand, and smiled and gave him the wet underwear with her fingertips.

Li Junge covered the underpants on the side where the needle came out, and then asked A Yin to put the wood back on, and with two slashes, he cut off a trace of the iron piece again.

Then hurriedly threw the knife away, picked up the underwear and rummaged under the eyes, if it wasn't someone who knew the inside story, he would definitely yell abnormal.

Finally, I found out the iron needle hanging on the underwear and looked at it carefully. The two knives were chopped off on two sides. The edge of the machete just squeezed the cross section of the part of the iron piece into a perfect rhombus.Almost no grinding required, just a perfect drill with a width of [-]mm.

However, the tip still needs to come out. After the tip is quenched and oiled on the gravel, the hardness will recover, and a small drill bit will be available!
Now that the way is clear, the remaining two iron pieces cannot be wasted.

Li Junge followed the same method and cut out five drill bits.

The remaining two parts are also useful. Inside the small bamboo tube are two artifacts for dividing clay pieces.

The next pay-off board is ready. Take two long wooden strips and stack them together. The big drill bit drills twenty holes at the same distance, and nails twenty bamboo nails on them.

Take [-] bamboo tubes with an inner diameter one circle larger than the bamboo nails, cut them off, and the length is one section higher than the bamboo nails.

Then turn the hole on the upper part of the bamboo tube, and put on the bamboo nails in the same way.

Scrape the bamboo nails out of the two sides of the bamboo tube, pick up another piece of wood, turn the bamboo tube, and set the upper bamboo nails into the holes on the wooden bar one by one, and the twenty bamboo tubes are fixed .

Extend the wooden frame of the textile machine, fix the device behind the wooden frame, remove the wooden strips, remove the bamboo tubes one by one, and wind each with five meters of twine.

Ask Ayin to stop weaving, first take off the moving grid, and use a small hand drill to punch holes in the bamboo sticks one by one.

Then install the mobile grid back, find the corresponding longitude, draw a line from every other thread ball, pass through the small hole in the middle of the grid, and connect with them.

Then remove the fixed grid, punch holes one by one again, pull the thread from the rest of the thread to pass through the small hole, and connect with the warp thread that was originally tied on it.

Then slowly turn the bamboo tube, tighten the threads one by one, and fix the bamboo nails on the bamboo tube to the wooden bar with twenty holes.

If it can't be fixed, bite off the thread and reconnect it. In short, let the thread ball be fixed.

This is this time, and the thread amount of each thread ball will be fixed every time in the future, so there will not be such a large error.

After the thread is broken, Ah Yin can sit back in front of the loom and weave the ribbon again.

After weaving a few times, Li Junge loosened the perforated plate, and A Yin released the brakes on both sides of the round stick in front of him, and rolled the tape around the round stick until almost the same. Li Junge fixed the perforated plate, and A Yin continued to tighten the crossbar. Find a suitable location to fix the brakes.

There are many round holes on the wheels, and there are several sockets between the elastics that can be inserted, so the positions can be easily adjusted, and then A Yin can continue to weave the straps.

This hit A Yin's Achilles' heel, and she couldn't stop weaving.

With this, many tools have to be prepared again, including bamboo needles and crochet hooks.

These are all easy to handle, the small drill bit can not only drill a hole of [-]mm, as long as the thing is thin enough, the two ends can be drilled down, as long as it does not exceed the maximum width of the drill bit, theoretically any small hole can be drilled.

So Li Junge prepared a lot of bamboo needles for Ah Yin to crochet from old bamboo with leather, and weaved a sewing box for her with thin bamboo silk.

(End of this chapter)