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Chapter 594: Dyeing Workshop

The same goes for clothes. The daily uniforms of the imperial army must be made of linen, but now women from various tribes make clothes as they please. There is no unified method at all. They just cut the linen and sew it into something almost like a piece of clothing.

style.

At present, the Ba people have the best handicrafts, including the large witch dresses worn by a group of witches. Mother Ba and a group of ingenious Ba women slowly sewed them. For decoration, these witch dresses are also embroidered with different colors according to their rank.

Color pattern.

But these clothes look decent from a distance, and you must not look closely or carefully. If you look more closely, you will find that these needlework looks like the handiwork of primary school students, which is completely terrible.

Although linen clothing has become the daily clothing of various tribes over the years, the progress has been very small.

The main reason is that no one has formally learned how to make clothes, and they still have the superficial introductory skills taught by Xu Chen a few years ago. However, in recent years, with the improvement of sewing tools such as copper needles, scissors, and so on, the sewing technology has improved, but in terms of style,

There is no breakthrough in style and style, it is simple and rough.

Even if Xu Chen draws a set of solemn SS uniforms, I am afraid that the final result will be similar to the clothes worn by the Japanese and puppet soldiers.

Therefore, the only way to make clothes and armor is to establish a specialized military uniform manufacturing factory.

In addition, Xu Chen did not plan to use the simplest gray and white primary color linen to make the Imperial Army uniform this time. This was too casual. He wanted to use black or dark blue cloth to make it, so he had to make dyed cloth on a large scale first, and

To produce dyed cloth on a large scale, a special dyeing workshop must be set up.

As a result, the situation became more complicated, and Xu Chen could only slowly plan.

Two days passed by in a blink of an eye. Gu's logistics acquisition work was already in full swing, and the entire Gonghuo Basin was in a state of shock. However, Gu's munitions manufacturing was still in a state of flux.

Starting from the third day, Xu Chen began to go to the military camp every day to teach the Imperial Guards.

According to the new training manual compiled, the Royal City Forbidden Army is completely modeled after the military camp model of later generations, and has a strict management system.

Get up at dawn, the bugle sounds three times, that is, you must get dressed and complete housekeeping within fifteen minutes. The officer on duty in the military camp will inspect the barracks. If the time is not completed, you will be punished.

After getting up, it takes fifteen minutes to simply wash and defecate, then line up in the playground to start morning exercises, and have breakfast half an hour later.

Breakfast and rest time add up to one hour, and then there is the routine walking training class. Although it is also walking training, the requirements are much stricter than before in various tribes. The requirements for walking, sitting and standing are very strict, and every movement is strict.

Can't make any mistakes.

There were two hours of footwork training in the morning, with a 20-minute rest period in between. After the training, there was a cultural class, where Xu Chen taught how to read and write.

Have a light lunch at noon and then rest for an hour.

There are two hours of equipment and confrontation training in the afternoon, mainly bow and arrow, spear throwing, melee combat, wrestling, equestrian, etc. The training content is different every day, and there is a strict training schedule, which is repeated every ten days.

After the training, there is a cultural class, which is mainly about calculation.

There is one hour of rest and entertainment time left. Use the team as a team to start some entertaining and similar confrontation projects, such as archery competitions, horse riding competitions and even ball games.

Dinner is scheduled for about half past five.

After dinner, the Commander-in-Chief of the Forbidden Army, Long Hui, held a general meeting to summarize the day's training and learning based on the training situation, commend individuals and teams that performed well in training, and criticize and educate individuals and teams that were punished for poor training.

Every three days, Xu Chen would also attend a summary meeting to randomly check the knowledge and culture classes of all the Forbidden Forces.

Because the military camp is under closed management, these primitive savages who are used to laziness in various tribes must be very unaccustomed to being locked up here all day long. Therefore, while Xu Chen exercises vigorously and strictly manages, he will also use some entertainment and rewards to

Stimulate their interest in the military camp.

Traditionally, when new recruits join the army, they are most emotionally agitated. Therefore, in the first three months, Xu Chen will not give these recruits too much free time. They are required to be brave in the cold and heat, rain or shine, and study hard every day, and they are not allowed to take it easy.

If you go out of the military camp to find women to drive piles, you will be dismissed if you violate military discipline.

In order to get the training of the Forbidden Army on the right track as soon as possible, Xu Chen arranged two assistants for Long a few days later. Two lieutenants from the Ba tribe who were stationed in the royal city, Ju He Gao.

Ju Hegao is younger than Feng, Lei and others, and is also the first hunter to train with Xu Chen in the Ba tribe. Although they are not particularly outstanding, nor are they very brave, they are both smarter and very steady in their work.

, the two of them have always stayed in the tribe to take care of the tribe's safety over the years, and they are also the main force of the hunting team.

After the Ba tribe established their settlement in the royal city, both of them moved here to manage the tribe. They were mainly responsible for training a group of hunters on weekdays, and assisting Xu Chen in dealing with matters in the royal city.

During the past few days of training the Forbidden Army, Xu Chen found that although these recruits were very serious and hard-working, they were too busy to rely solely on the guidance of him and Long. Therefore, Xu Chen decided to arrange for two senior officers to come to assist, so that he

There is no need to spend time in the military camp every day.

After all, he still has a lot to do right now.

In addition to arranging the manufacture of bow and arrow weapons and setting up dyeing workshops and armor and uniform factories, he also had to do the interior and exterior decoration and planning of a large number of buildings in the royal city. He was almost too busy every day to keep his feet off the ground.



I'm so busy, March is here in a blink of an eye.

After more than ten days of personal preparation and training by Xu Chen, the daily management of the Forbidden Army gradually got on the right track, and various training and studies began to go well.

While he was busy training the Forbidden Army, Xu Chen was also busy planning and building a dyeing workshop and a military uniform factory every day.

Printing and dyeing is a technology that appeared almost at the same time as textiles, and it is very old. Initially, people did not print and dye on purpose, but formed various colors after being stained with various stains on clothes in daily life. Then the ancients slowly summarized it

Which plants or mineral colors are highly adhesive and cannot be washed off, or will look more beautiful when applied on clothes, just like primitive people applying various pigments to their faces and bodies.

The simple dyeing technique is not difficult. It is to pick plants with dyeing effect, mash them, apply them on the dyed cloth, and after drying, you will have a colored dyed cloth.

In the course of tens of thousands of years of survival and accumulation, primitive humans have discovered many plant and mineral pigments that can be used, including soil of various colors.

Xu Chen has been exploring and researching dyeing techniques since he taught women in the Ba tribe how to spin and weave.

However, his exploration was very casual. He just applied various pigments that primitive people used daily on the linen and linen cloth, and simply made them into different colors.

This dyeing method is arbitrary, and each piece of cloth and each ball of twine will be dyed in a different color.

The retention time of various dyes also varies. Some dyes cannot be washed off or are very washable and fade slowly, but some fade completely after a few washes.

And there are many kinds of dyes. Various grass leaves are mainly dyed green and blue, various flowers are mainly dyed red and yellow, various rhizome juices with white pulp are mainly dyed brown or black, and mineral dyes can be dyed in any color.

have.

Thanks to the wide variety and luxuriant growth of plants in this era, there are an endless number of plant dyes. Roots, flowers, leaves and fruits can all be used for dyeing. It just depends on the dyed color and the final retention time.

Although dyeing in daily life is somewhat arbitrary, Ba women still slowly explored some relatively stable dyeing materials, and then fixed seven or eight types.

In ancient China, the most common dyes were blue and cyan. The main dyes were indigo grass, also called polygonum indigo. Like Polygonum vulgaris, it is a very common herb. The juice of this plant is squeezed out and sticky.

It's greenish-blue on the hands and has very strong adhesion. It sticks to clothes and can't be washed off.

Xu Chen didn't know Polygonum indica, but there were several other plants that could dye linen and linen into blue, green, and cyan. They were everywhere in front of the house, behind the house, on the riverbank, and on the hillside.

There is even a kind of blue-purple berry. The juice is blue-purple and tastes sweet. After eating, the teeth will turn blue-purple. When you smile, your mouth will be full of blue. It will stay like this for several days. And the cloth dyed with this berry

The color is very stable, but the seasonality is very strong, and the output is rare. For the time being, it has only been dyed the blue cloak of the blue witch.

The red color is mainly made from cinnabar, but the sap of a kind of tree vine is used. The leaves and roots of this tree vine are red. The sap is very viscous and can be used as a simple glue, but it will turn red after drying.

Combined with cinnabar, linen can be dyed pure red.

There are also many yellow dyes.

At first, Xu Chen used iron sulfide powder and some plant juices, mixed them, kneaded and beat them for dyeing. The new cloth looked good, but it was not resistant to cleaning and began to fade after a few times.

Later, he boiled water with a wild fruit similar to gardenia, which could also be used to dye cloth. It was not easy to fade, but the color was more orange-yellow.

Later, he discovered that the golden-red milk fruit flower juice sticks to clothes and turns golden yellow after drying, and is not easy to wash off. However, picking a large number of milk fruit flowers will cause a reduction in milk fruit production, so it is only used to make milk fruit for little witches.

Yellow cloak and witch skirt.

Black cloth is the simplest. A large amount of plant rhizome sap will turn black or brown after drying. Ba women have also explored some techniques. If it is pure black, you can add some magnetite powder to the rhizome sap.

Can dye pure black fabric.

As for other colors, there are many types. Almost all kinds of plant minerals can be used for dyeing, and the dyed colors are also complex and diverse, but the final results vary greatly.

But in the end, the more durable colors are nothing more than red, yellow, green, blue and black, which are common colors in later generations. Among them, black, cyan, and blue are the easiest, followed by green, red, yellow, etc. Brown, purple, orange, etc. can also be done.

come out.

As for other messy colors, there are too many. You can have any color you want, and the formula cannot be fixed. You can only look at the types of plants and minerals used randomly.

In other words, although there are many kinds of dyes at present, they cannot escape the development route of human civilization in the end. Fabrics that can be printed and dyed on a large scale will still be the most common colors in later generations.

Therefore, when Xu Chen opened a dyeing workshop this time, the main focus was on printing and dyeing black, blue, cyan, and red fabrics. As for other colors, threads could be dyed for decoration instead of large-scale manufacturing.

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