Pampered Tian's Wife: The Little Weaver Girl in the Farmhouse

Chapter 120 Start of Weaving Workshop

The news that the weaving workshop was going to recruit people had already spread, so early on the morning of the 27th, many girls from various villages came to sign up for trial work.

Qiaoyun, shopkeeper Han, and two young men set up tables and chairs at the gate of the weaving workshop, and then asked the female workers who came to sign up to register their names, addresses, etc., and asked if they would sign a five-year contract.At the same time, he also discussed matters such as wages with others directly.

Weavers with a five-year contract were paid [-] Wen a day during their apprenticeship.After the deal is completed, the salary will be increased to [-] Wen, which is the same as Qiao Yun's original one.In addition, for those who do handyman, they are paid [-] wen during their apprenticeship, and forty wen after they complete their studies.

In these years, a strong laborer, carrying goods for others in the town, earned only thirty or forty Wen a day, and was so tired that he was dying.For ordinary helpers, it is very good to have [-] Wen.Therefore, the wages of female workers are not low. Those who come to sign up are already very satisfied with the wages.

After discussing wages and treatment and consulting those people's opinions, the female workers who came to sign up were divided into two places.Then Qiaoyun can take those female workers who are willing to sign the contract to interview later.

The loom used for the trial work was the one at Qiaoyun's house, and shopkeeper Han had sent someone to bring that loom back.There are also warp lines that Qiaoyun has laid out on it, so it is also convenient to use.Qiaoyun asked those girls to come up one by one and try to weave a section to see the effect.

The girls in the nearby villages have never weaved silk or satin, but they have done ordinary linen.There is that kind of dexterous girl who, under Qiao Yun's guidance, mastered the skill in a short time.There are also some that are slightly worse, and it seems that it will take some getting used to.Of course, there are also those who are clumsy and really can't do it, and Qiao Yun is not polite at all, and is eliminated directly.

This kind of trial work was not fast, and only a dozen or so qualified candidates were selected in one morning, but Qiao Yun was very satisfied.She would rather take a little longer and pick some good players back. Now that she picks people carefully, it will not be so strenuous when she guides later.

For those who were not selected here, some Qiaoyun felt that they could still do other handymen with the payment, and there were a few who were really unsightly, so I can only apologize.

Now that Qiaoyun has selected a candidate, he is about to go to shopkeeper Han to sign the contract.Because it had been agreed in advance, these female workers did not have any objections, and the signing of the contract went very smoothly.For those who signed the contract, Qiaoyun arranged for them to help deal with the silkworm cocoons for the time being. After all the female workers were recruited, the weaving workshop could officially start work.

In this way, it took Qiaoyun three days to pick out more than forty good female workers and keep them to be trained as weavers.For the rest, another fifty or sixty people were picked out as handymen, and basically the female workers in the weaving workshop were recruited enough.

On the other side of Qijia Village, Xiulian and Xiujuan also stayed, and there were seven or eight other people.In this way, Qiaoyun can go to work in the town together with everyone.

After all the candidates are selected enough, the weaving workshop will officially start work.First of all, of course, is silk reeling. Qiaoyun personally guides everyone to learn silk reeling.

Taking silkworms as an example, about twenty cocoons are thrown into the silk used for weaving silk and other things.If it is to weave fabrics such as headscarves, you need to throw in more than a dozen silk cocoons. If it is used for embroidery silk threads, you need a lot. The thickest one uses fifty silk cocoons.

The silk of mountain silkworm is relatively thicker, so the number of cocoons will be reduced.Moreover, most of the fabrics such as silk are used in the north. Of course, the weaving workshop is also developing in this direction, so Qiaoyun decided that the number of silkworm cocoons that are thrown into the pot each time is fifteen.

Silk reeling requires throwing cocoons into hot water, and the best temperature is around [-] degrees.When the silkworm spins silk, it is covered with sericin, which will dissolve in hot water, and then gently sweep the cocoons with a special broom to find the ends of the silk threads.Find all the silk threads of more than a dozen cocoons and put them together. The sericin originally carried on the silk will make more than a dozen silks stick together and form a strand, which is also called a thread.

Hold the head of a thread of silk in your hand, pass it through the eye of the bamboo needle, first go around the head of the star nail, then hang it on the wire feed rod, and finally connect it to the Daguan car.Next, step on the crank handle with your feet, and through the movement of the roller, the Oguan car is driven to rotate, and the drawn silk can be slowly wound on the Oguan car.

Of course, this is easy to say, but it is not simple to operate.If you want the silk to be evenly wound on the mark car without overlapping and piling up, you need the mutual cooperation between the pedal crank and the wire feed rod.

Qiaoyun has already considered it when designing the silk reeling car, so under the wire feed rod, the crank handle is linked with gears and other components.In this way, the wire feed rod will swing evenly under the drive of the gear, so that all the silk will not be piled up together.

At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of silk, it is also necessary to dry out the water.That is to say, during the time when the silk thread is wound from the wire feed rod to the mark car, the silk should be as dry as possible.In order to achieve this effect, it is generally necessary to bake with charcoal fire.

But at this time, it was the end of June and the beginning of July, the hottest season. There was a fire under the original silk reeling pot and stove. If the charcoal basin was used again, the temperature in the house would be too high.So when the house was first built, Qiao Yun specially asked shopkeeper Han to leave a dozen vents on the side of the silk reeling workshop.

The summer is hot, and the room is kept ventilated, and the water from the silk dries quickly.In this way, the charcoal basin is saved, and the female silk reeling workers don't have to be burned too uncomfortable by the fire.Of course, sitting next to the pot and stove can't be very comfortable.

The weaving workshop has just started to operate, and there is not so much raw silk to use, so at the beginning, we can only concentrate on reeling silk.There are more than [-] ordinary silk reeling cars in the silk reeling workshop, but there are many female workers, so Qiaoyun needs to pick out some fast learners from among those female workers, and let them go to the animal-drawn carts. The silk reeling car is put into operation.

Qiaoyun has a vicious vision, and the female workers selected are all very good. There are more than a dozen of them who learn things very quickly. In less than two days, they can reel three or four strands of silk on a silk reeling car.Of course, Qiaoyun would not miss this kind of manpower, and directly transferred them to the high-end silk reeling car to work.

The female workers on the five-year contract are all ingenious people. Qiaoyun plans to train these workers in an all-round way, and select a few foremen from among them in the future.Therefore, Qiaoyun will let them touch all the processes.As for the handymen, they were assigned to do other things first, and waited for the silk reeling car to vacate space, and then picked someone to fill it.

Qiaoyun is very familiar with the various processes of the weaving workshop, and with her leading the work, there is no confusion at all.In a few days, everyone got started and did a good job.

　The third update will be delivered earlier, so that everyone will not be anxious. Hehe, I will continue to code words. It should be the third update tomorrow. Are you happy now?

　　
　
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