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Chapter 181 Jacquard Machine

The weather is good today, and Yunyao asked Mowu to transport some wood to come back to open the kiln to burn charcoal. In order to increase the temperature of the blast furnace, Yunyao had already started making charcoal.

Charcoal is the fuel obtained by wood after insufficient combustion. It is widely used. The most important thing is to be used as fuel for refining bronze. Because the moisture in the wood evaporates in advance, it burns higher than the temperature of the wood. There have been charcoal people who make charcoal since the Shang Dynasty, and Yun Yao quickly made high-quality charcoal by copying it.

Next, Yunyao needed to refine a batch of bronze ware, mainly bronze parts, used to transform textile machines, because the golden silk that had been saved for five years was almost woven.

However, gold silk is different from ordinary silk, and it is very tough. Ordinary wooden looms cannot be processed at all, so it is necessary to use bronze parts to strengthen the loom in key parts. Therefore, Yunyao directly transformed the loom into a jacquard machine, allowing the loom to weave wider and longer cloths and weave complex patterns.

Golden silk is not easy to process and is not a material for mortals, but Yun Yao always wants to use mortals to challenge it with mortals' abilities.

There is a small weaving machine in the fief, which can only weave a width of less than three feet. Although it is usually enough, it cannot process the cicada silk.

"The width must be increased to one zhang." It will be expanded three times at once. The larger the loom, the heavier the fabric, the greater the wear, the greater the wear, so the key parts must be replaced by bronze.

The loom is a heavy industry in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is already very good to have one in Yunyao Caiyi. It will take at least another thousand years for men to weave women. At that time, the loom will go to every household. The advanced jacquard opportunity is even more exaggerated. A room must be prepared for special installation and use.

The jacquard machine, which is ten feet wide, has surpassed the Western Zhou Dynasty. Of course, the principle has not changed, it is that it is bigger and can weave more varieties.

This first weaving machine in the Western Zhou Dynasty started with burning charcoal. After Yunyao drew a few design drawings of stone slabs, he finally began to miss the paper.

But just make paper, don't waste wood.

Yunyao continued to work hard with the savages, and the savages were also happy to help Yunyao do things. Not only was they rewarded, but they could also learn knowledge. They deeply understood the importance of learning. They could learn things they could not have done before, and they could make their lives better after learning.

Yunyao was wearing a linen long skirt, wearing a deerskin apron on the outside, combed her long hair into a bun, fixed it on top of her head with a wooden hairpin, tied her wide sleeves with a cloth strap, and moved her jade arms freely.

At the age of eighteen, Bai Ruxue and as beautiful as a painting, but he still led the savages to work very down-to-earth, built earth kilns and blast furnaces, but the small fief was complete, just a tall city wall was built.

After accumulating grain, Xiao State on the south bank organized man to repair the city wall and built a dirt city wall more than two meters high to prevent wild beasts and little monsters.

The Zhu family fiefs on the north bank are still fences. Although they are repaired and maintained every year, they are indeed more vulnerable than the earthen walls on the south bank. In addition, there is more and more food in the granary, so Shuzai has long proposed to repair the walls, but Yunyao knew that the walls would have to be demolished sooner or later, because Yunyao knew that in a few years, the population in the fiefs would increase, and the construction of the city walls would definitely cause congestion. It would be better to develop and slow down the walls first. Anyway, their fiefs were protected by monks.

After burning the charcoal, the wild people will take the crumbly charcoal home, which is not a waste.

During the gap between building the jacquard machine, Yunyao also considered the weaving of golden silk and wanted to dye it. Because not only for himself, the golden silkworms brought back from the black bird produce a lot of silk, and there is a very strange phenomenon that is, the golden silkworms and ordinary silkworms are put together, and the ordinary silkworms have turned into gold. Nowadays, golden silk can make several sets of clothes.

It turned out that Yunyao had a very good luck in the first "luck lottery". The Xuanniao found not ordinary golden silkworms, but the Golden Silkworm King. The Golden Silkworm King could turn the silkworms around him into his own kind. As expected, the Xuanniao was still very mysterious, providing extremely high rewards for Yunyao, who offered sacrifices for the first time.

Since you need to consider dyeing when you want to weave nature, you can't be as gray as all linen clothes, which is too monotonous. In a backward environment, you have to think about everything yourself. If you want to dye, you have to find fuel yourself. If you want to make a jacquard machine and embroider yourself. In short, you have to do it yourself and have enough food and clothing.

"Sister Mowu, do you think this kind of tricks are beautiful?" Yunyao has a straight man's aesthetic taste, so she still invited real women in the thatched cottage to provide advice.

However, Mowu is not an ordinary woman, she likes black, and she likes two patterns: skeleton and flame.

"Skeletons represent victory, and flames represent strength." Mo Wu said: "Master, I think it is best to use black as the base, plus white skeletons and red flames."

Yunyao shook her head when she heard this, she was not as good as her petal pattern.

In fact, there was no woman who weaved cloth in thatched cottage. Mo Wu was a slave of Guifang. Later, she had no chance to learn to weaving. Li was a woman from Dongyi and could make leather. Hongsang was a genius in Tushan who was dedicated to practicing immortality. Yunyao was a time traveler but she had no chance to weaving cloth before traveling. She only started learning after traveling.

So no one has ever done the work of designing patterns, so he can only think about it a little bit.

The golden silk has been sorted into spindles through spindles. The texture of the silk thread is like metal, but it can be dyed. If it can be processed, I still hope that the spinned silk can be more beautiful.

Finally, everyone discussed it. Instead of using tangible objects as the theme, they used invisible objects such as clouds, fire, and thunder to highlight the ethereal atmosphere of monks, which was fresh and refined, but this irregular pattern was not easy to weave.

Fortunately, Yunyao is very confident and is also very confident about his improved loom.

The prototype of the parts is made of wood, and then the mold is made with a mixture of rosin and grass ash. The bronze juice is poured into cooling and set, and the finished bronze parts are then polished and finally installed on the machine.

A house was vacated in the fiefdom to install this machine that was 100 meters wide and 30 meters long. Because it was very heavy, it needed to use a beam as a support. On the day of installation, everyone in the fief came to see the fun. This was the first time they saw such an exaggerated loom.

Several Chinese people even personally helped assemble the fabric. They knew that the cloth woven from such a large loom must be very wide and very long. Although they didn't know what Yunyao wanted to do with such a large silk, such a large thing must be rare.

Nowadays, common cloths are only two feet wide. Although they are used as cloth coins, the size and length of each cloth coins are different, and there is no unified standard. If Yunyao uses such a large weaving machine to weave cloth coins and then trade them, it will definitely be a loss to grandma's house. Fortunately, Yunyao is weaving cloth for his own use and will not be used as cloth coins.
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