ANCIENT WASTELAND

Ch 89 bazaar

Jingyuan and Ye followed Zhuang to the mountains where he could see the cocoon. The silk cloth that Zhuang had brought was also sent to Jingyuan's hand, and Jingyuan pinched the cloth to examine it carefully.

It is indeed woven from silk, and it is a relatively common and relatively high-quality mulberry silk.

In fact, the more common cocoons used for reeling and weaving can be divided into two types. The first is that the silk is white, fine and soft mulberry silk.

The second is tussah silk that is darker in color, mostly near black brown. Cocoons can also be used for silk reeling, but the relative quality is not that good.

Most of the silkworms appear in the south. After successful domestication, they are raised indoors and fed with mulberry leaves, while the tussah silkworms are kept in the wild.

Just throw it directly on an tussah tree. Just now, Zhuang said that their tribe picked cocoons from the tree, and Jing thought they were tussah silkworms.

How to put it, although it is really necessary to compare, tussah silk is indeed not as good as mulberry silk, and the fiber length is high, but it is actually very good.

After all, even if it is tussah silk, the fiber length is much longer than the length of hemp fiber and cotton fiber, especially when there is no spinning machine.

The utilization rate of natural long fibers like silk is much higher than the utilization rate of cotton and linen. Cotton and linen have not been popularized yet, and there is no need for clothes to wear.

In this case, whether it is mulberry silk or tussah silk, they must be very popular, and no one is so stupid to dislike tussah silk.

What worries Jing a little is that he did experiments in school when he was a child and raised silkworms. They were silkworms, and he didn't know much about tussah silkworms.

I am familiar with mulberry breeding, including silkworm moths hatched from silkworm cocoons, silkworm moths hatched after laying eggs, how to raise silkworms to form cocoons and reel in silk!

Zhuang took the silk cloth to check carefully, and was a little puzzled, "What's the problem?"

Jing Yuan smiled and shook his head, and asked casually, "You draw silk from the cocoons, the silk is relatively slender, this piece of cloth How long will it take."

He held a 10cm square silk fabric about the size of a handkerchief in his hand. It was very light and thin, and the lines on his hand could be seen through the light.

In addition, the silk itself has a cooling sensation. This kind of thick silk has no warmth retention effect, but it is suitable for wearing during the dry season and is very cool.

It's a bit like the cotton leaves in their tribe, but because the silk is very thin and easily broken, such a piece of cloth may take more time!

Zhuang didn't know this. He was detected as a beast talent since he was a child, and he was selected as a seedling by the tribe to focus on training. The main task is to cultivate.

There is no need to participate in hunting on weekdays, and it is provided by the tribe and sacrifices. Especially after the former Beastmaster returns to the embrace of the Beast God, there is no Beast King in the tribe.

There is an urgent need for a Beastmaster to support the prestige of the tribe. Zhuang and the selected partner are indifferent to the outside world and focus on cultivating all day.

He didn't know anything about the tribe, and followed Zhuang's warrior and quickly replied, "This silk cloth needs to be woven all day from morning to night."