The natural empire of ocean dragons

Chapter 68 Linen weaving and silk dyeing

At first, Attilan thought that these silks were woven by Eveli. Why did she not cherish the fruits of her labor at all? Now that the case has been solved, these silks were not woven by her at all.

If you have not worked hard to weave it, you will naturally not cherish it.

Wait a minute, if these silks were not woven by Eveli, then if he asked the fishman to learn weaving linen from Eveli, wouldn't he learn nothing?

Originally, Attilan thought that Eveli had made a wooden loom to spin thread and weave cloth.

It turns out that the silk is all spun by spiders, and even the murlocs have no way of learning the spinning skills of spiders, bastard!

The curiosity about this giant spider with a diameter of over eight meters was instantly suppressed by the bad mood of Azabu's technology tree being shattered.

Attilan came and went in a hurry, but did not disturb the big spider. She was still spinning the silk in her hands seriously.

Back at Eveli's house, Attilan couldn't wait to ask:

"Evli, can you make wooden spinning and weaving machines?"

Eveli was stunned for a moment while grabbing the tendon of the sheep.

"Weaving doesn't just require hands, why would you need to build a special wooden machine for weaving? Isn't this creating trouble for yourself?"

Attilan looked at her helplessly. He was so stupid. Really, he only knew that the spider silk lady could weave silk, but he forgot that spider weaving did not require machine assistance.

"But fishmen must have the assistance of machines to weave cloth!"

When Attilan said this, Eveli immediately understood.

"That's it."

She put down the tendon in her hand, grabbed a ball of spider silk and wiped her hands. She picked a thin branch from the nearby tree and cut it off. In a few strokes, she cut the branch into two wooden needles and held them in her hands.

"Although I don't know what kind of loom you are talking about, you can use these two wooden needles to imitate the spider's weaving method to a great extent. I will show it to you."

As she spoke, Eveli grabbed a ball of spider silk, wrapped it around a wooden needle, and performed a hand-knitted silk show for Attilan.

Attilan had seen the craft of knitting being used by the adults in his family when he was a child. He had also seen heavy blankets being woven on looms, but he had no talent in this area and did not understand the key to it.

Otherwise, he would have designed the loom himself, and there would be no need to work hard to please Eveli and let her teach fishman weaving. As a result, Attilan met a talented player.

Eveli was very fast. The spider silk turned into a slender white silk scarf in her hands in less than two minutes. She walked directly to Attilan and tied the silk scarf on his arm.

"Look, it's beautiful."

"The knitting skills can be used for the time being. Please teach it to the fishman. However, the efficiency of knitting is too slow. I still need to find another weaver who can use a textile machine."

Eveli waved her hand casually.

"No need, it's just a loom. Give me some time and I promise to design a loom that satisfies you."

Eveli seemed very calm on the surface, but she knew very well that if she wanted to seize Attilan's long-term food ticket, the textile machine must be designed as soon as possible.

"No problem, I'll leave the loom to you. I see you have so much silk piled up at home. Do you have any plans to sell some? I can exchange it for delicious food."

"A piece of silk will cover your three meals for a month. Do you think it will be delivered to you, or will you go to Qinglin Town to eat?"

"what?"

Eveli blinked in surprise. These silks were just something she and Arachne made casually to pass the time when they were bored. She didn't expect that one piece of silk was worth a month's worth of food.

"Can you take Arachne to eat with you?"

"Arachne isn't talking about the big spider at the back, is she?"

"correct."

"This... I'm afraid it won't work. With Arachne's size, I can't provide her with so much food. Now I have a problem even feeding my dependents."

"If the food produced in the Black Forest is not enough to support the big spider, I can help you sell the silk and exchange it for meat, so you don't have to worry about Arachne not having enough food."

Eveli explained with a faint smile:

"Arachne's appetite is actually very small. In addition to mulberry leaves, she eats a few lizards every day and rabbits can feed her."

Attilan looked at the little spiders crawling around on the black-leaf mulberry tree not far away and eating the mulberry leaves, sighed and said:

"Evely, as a druid you should really control the number of spiders. If this continues, sooner or later there will be no animals left in the black forest except spiders."

Eveli said nonchalantly:

"These little spiders will attract lizards and snakes, frogs, and birds from the south to prey on them. They eat the little spiders, and Arachne eats them. Isn't this the balance of the Black Forest?"

Attilan was speechless. He originally thought that the little spiders were the descendants of Arachne, but now it seems that these little spiders are bait for Arachne to prey on!

"What kind of spider is Arachne, and how did it grow so big? Or what secret recipe did you use to cultivate it? If so, there's no need to tell."

Eveli opened the third jar Attilan brought.

"Snake soup! I like to eat snake meat the most."

<divclass="contentadv"> Being ignored, Attilan could only walk to the silk and check it with the hand of the mage. Eveli rolled up the silk with a two-meter-long wooden stick. The silk was about ten meters long. About as wide as a stick.

According to this calculation, one piece of silk can be used to make at least two sets of clothes, but white silk is a bit too common. It happened that he found several plants in the forest that could be used as dyes.

"Evely, for one piece of silk, how about I give you a thousand pieces of rabbit meat, or fifty pieces of mutton, or twenty pieces of wild boar meat?"

Eveli answered vaguely while eating snake soup:

"Okay, but you have to help me cook it."

Attilan glanced at her indifferently and asked you how Arachne came. You didn't tell her. When it came to food, you didn't wait for the food in your mouth to be swallowed and answered immediately.

I thought you were a cold lady, but I didn't expect you to be a foodie.

Eveli's silks are all white spider silk original color silk. This kind of silk is of high quality, but for vulgar humans who are willing to spend money on luxury goods, it is really a bit elegant.

The dyeing plants discovered by Attilan can now play their role.

Of course, you can dye it directly with silk. What if the silk is dyed and damaged?

Attilan naturally wanted to try the correct use of dye on linen first, and then dye it with the silk that Eveli had just wrapped around his arm.

Wait!

Eveli is not only wearing red silk products, so she must have mastered the technique of silk dyeing.

"Evely, how did you dye the silk red?"

"A lot of madder grows in the forest. As long as Arachne eats the corresponding amount of madder, she can get red silk. Do you want red silk too?"

Attilan was speechless. He suddenly felt like a fool climbing the technological tree in a fantasy world. Should he also directly control an animal that could weave cloth like Evely?

Forget it, magical beasts like Arachne do not have universal value. Those who can control magical beasts to weave cloth are the only ones among professionals. Only the path he chooses can create the most wealth.

Although he could not directly eat madder and spin red threads to weave silk like Arachne, Attilan also mastered the technology of dyeing red cloth with madder.

Boil the dried madder to produce a red dye. After ten times of dip-dying and drying, you can get a very bright red fabric.

Of course, this is an ideal situation, and you still need to try out the exact color you will get.

Attilan now has the madder that can dye the cloth red, indigo grass that can dye it blue, turmeric that can dye it yellow, and comfrey that can dye it purple.

The four dyes of red, blue, yellow, and purple are enough in the early stage, and fabrics of new colors can be obtained by mixing different dyes.

For example, green can be obtained by counterstaining yellow and blue.

"Besides madder, Eveli, have you found any other dyeing plants?"

Looking at the empty jar in front of her, Eveli shook her head in embarrassment.

"No, the madder was also because after Arachne accidentally ate a few of them, she discovered that she could spin red spider silk, so I asked Arachne to make this red dress for me from the madder that Arachne had eaten."

"I know several other plants that can be dyed. Can you help me make some clothes? In exchange for delicious food, I will provide the design drawings."

The Snake Princess wears clothes made of linen and shells, which cannot bring out her beauty at all. Attilan wants to design a Hanfu for Opela in purple and blue, embellished with white cloud patterns, to fully show off her beauty. of elegance.

Wait, Opea is wearing linen, which means there should be a race in the rain forest that masters the art of weaving linen. Regardless of whether there is enough food, Attilan decided to recruit them!

"No problem, you treat me to a delicious meal. I originally planned to give you a few pieces of silk, but it is best to make it into clothes directly so that Arachne can see the person wearing these clothes."

"The clothes made this way will be beautiful and fit well."

Attilan returned to the table and found that all the delicacies he brought had been destroyed by Eveli alone.

"Awesome, it looks like I will bring more food next time."

Evely's face turned a rare shy blush.

"No, this much is enough."

"Does Arachne like to eat raw or cooked? Pure meat, or mixed with some vegetables like carrots and onions?"

"Please prepare some of everything. Sometimes she eats raw food, and sometimes she eats cooked food with me. Anyway, I can't tell her temper."

Attilan asked doubtfully:

"She's not your animal companion?"

Eveli shook her head and said:

"She is my companion, but she is not under my control. She has her own ideas. Unless something big happens, she will do her own thing. As for you asking me before, I don't know what breed Arachne is. I know, I don’t know how she grew up like this.”

"I only know that she appears by my side as if she is destined. She is as unpredictable as my physique that can make people unhappy. But compared to my unhappiness, Arachne has a rare good temper."

"She was willing to help those who came to her for help as long as she was prepared to receive reciprocal remuneration."