2. Bleaching: there are mainly water bleaching, sunlight bleaching, dewdrop bleaching, lime water bleaching and charcoal fumigation. Ramie is rinsed by the above method and tied into bundles according to quality and length.
Performance yarn is divided into four processes: tearing, winding, twisting and winding. During the yarn performance, the naturally bleached ramie is torn into pieces, rolled into strands, put into a clear water basin, then combed into ramie filaments with fingers, and then rolled into hemp balls with a roller. Knitting is an important part of knitting. The process requirements are high, and the force on the shuttle button should be uniform. The plane edge of the cloth should be woven flat and stretched, without broken ends and seams, and the longitudinal lines should be sparse and even. In the early 1950s, Guo and Li Shuwan, a handicraft cooperative, negotiated to weave two "ribbed" horses, a total of 1200, and woven the words "Tiananmen Square", "dove of peace", "prancing horse" and "happiness" on the cloth and sent them to Beijing for exhibition. It is difficult to weave rib cloth. Pushing 2,400 pieces of hemp thread up and down on a one-foot-five-inch-wide cloth surface, the woven rib cloth is thinner than satin and as thin as paper, which fully shows the ingenuity of the workers.
It is reported that in the early years of the Republic of China, Zhou Yihe and Zhou Chuangan, two 1800 rat weavers, stopped weaving when the climate was dry and windy because they knitted for about an hour in the morning and evening. On a one-foot-five-inch-wide cloth surface, 3,600 pieces of twine should be arranged up and down, and 7.2 pieces should be arranged one millimeter wide, and they should be evenly distributed, so you can imagine the fineness and technical proficiency of twine. This pair of summer cloth was sold in 400 yuan at that time. Later, I also knitted a pair of the same summer cloth, which Xiao Yishun bought, and the agreement was 1200 yuan silver dollar. At that time, people called this pair of Xiabu "Xiabu King". Rinse the woven cloth in the river water, then stretch and straighten it, put it on a bamboo frame and dry it at one end with a wooden stick. After drying, it can be shaped. The shaping can be rolled with a stone mill, and the cloth is placed on a wooden bench and shaped with a wooden hammer.