"Burlap Chronicles: Unraveling the Threads of Time"

"Burlap Chronicles: Unraveling the Threads of Time"

It sounds like a fascinating and intriguing title for a book or a series of stories. The use of the word "burlap fabric" conjures images of a rough, textured fabric often associated with the rustic or vintage aesthetic.

Burlap Fabric

Burlap Fabric making:

1. Material collection: After peeling out the mature hemp bark in the hemp field, wash it in clean water, then fish it out, use a hemp knife to dig out the silk threads on the hemp bark, and finally dry the silk threads in the sun.

2. Ji Ma: Soak the dried hemp silk in water for 12 hours, separate the hemp strands with your hands, connect them one by one and wind them into oblate yarn balls.
3. Threading and pulling: Place the wound yarn ball on the ground. In front of it is a bamboo piece with two rows of holes. Thread the hemp threads one by one through the holes in the bamboo piece, and then thread them one by one through the holes in the bamboo piece. In the buttons made of bamboo material. After everything is threaded, the lead wire is neatly wound around the pole, and finally wound into a bundle of lead wires.
4. Brush sizing: Place the wound guy wire bundle on a flat and clean ground to sizing the linen yarn. First, boil rice flour into thick rice paste, then use a barmao brush to apply the rice paste and brush it evenly on the linen yarn, and use a brush button to comb the linen yarn after brushing to prevent the threads from adhering to each other and increase the texture of the threads. Hardness, dried and wound into woven bundles.
5. Weaving: Put the dried and starched woven burlap fabric bundle on the homemade linen machine, open the woven bundle and pull down the yarn, arrange it on the woven buckle, use the left and right pedals with your feet, and shuttle the ox bone shuttle back and forth with your left and right hands, and finally Weave it into pieces of linen cloth, take them out and dry them in the sun.

Burlap Fabric

 

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