Seventh Pagoda

In the early years, the Shen family's silk and satin shop did business all over the world, and after all, the merchant's family was well-informed and had little restraint.

Unlike the ladies who live in the boudoir, Shen Meifeng has followed his father to travel all over the world since he was a child. He has heard and seen for many years, and he knows best how a good dress consumes human and material resources.

When she was seven years old in Jiaxing, she saw her father making silk with her own eyes.

The best early silkworm eggs are selected and stored in bamboo strips, placed on the roof, and the four corners of the silkworm paper are pressed down with small stones, and they are allowed to withstand frost, snow, wind, rain, and lightning.

After 20 days, the weak silkworm eggs died, and the remaining silkworm eggs were born naturally three days after the Ching Ming Festival.

My father said that this was called "Tianyu", because it could not bear the silkworm eggs of Tianyu, nor could it make good clothes.

After the young silkworms are born, they need to pick fresh and moist Jiaxing mulberries. Only the sharpest Tongxiang scissors can not damage the essence of the leaves. Eat the best mulberry leaves, and the silk spit out by the silkworms will be shiny.

The silkworms had enough to eat and sleep, and when they were about to cocoon, my father cut bamboo strips and wove them into silkworm foil, and then built a wooden frame six feet above the ground, and put a charcoal fire on the ground, which had to be silver frost without smoke or sparks. carbon.

A brazier is placed every four or five feet around. When the cocoon is first formed, the firepower is light. After the cocoon is formed, half a catty of charcoal is added to each pot of charcoal fire, and the silk spit out by the silkworm dries immediately.

My father said that the silk produced in this way is not bad for a long time. It is made into clothes and washed in water for more than 100 times. The silk is still intact and undamaged.

When reeling silk, throw [-] cocoons into the pot at a time. After the water boils, stir the water surface with a bamboo stick, and the silk head will appear slowly. The firewood must be dry and smoke-free so that the color of the silk will not be damaged.

The father held the silk head in his hand, passed it through the eye of the bamboo needle, bypassed the star head, hung it on the wire feeding rod, and connected it to the Daguan cart. Close the car about five inches away.

When the Daguan car rotates rapidly, the silk is dried by charcoal fire while turning, so as to maintain the color of silk.

Adjusting the silk, separating the warp and weft, weaving on the flower machine, starching the silk, pulling the edge, and finally scouring with rice straw ash and water, soaking in pig pancreas fat for one night, and then washing in hot water, the silk color can be bright and shiny.After being stretched and dried, it is then scraped vigorously with a smooth old clam shell to reveal its luster.

All the silk clothes are very beautiful and precious, and among them there is "smoke weaving", which is the most rare.What is valuable is not only the silk quality, but also the weaving method.

Tobacco has three textures.

Weaving two shuttles in plain weave, weaving a twisted heald, which is as thin as a cicada's wing. The daughter of an aristocratic family uses it to cut clothes, and puts it on the outside of the shirt, showing a subtle appearance.

The third lady of the Yasukuni Mansion was very different, she used smoke to paste the windows and lampshades, her extravagance was astounding, but she didn't feel sorry for herself at all.

Weave four-shuttle plain weave and weave one shuttle heddle, which is called misty smoke, light and soft, if it is hot summer, you will get a misty smoke robe and wear it next to your body, you will feel icy muscles and bones, and feel the wind, and you will feel refreshed and cool. No sweat.

Every summer, Prince Xi lazily went to the summer resort to spend a lot of time on boats and cars. He often found himself a misty robe and lay down in Lushui Xiaozhu for a whole day.

Weaving plain weave with seven shuttles and twisting healds with three shuttles, which is called stacking smoke, the weaving method has gradually been lost among the people. Only when the empress dowager of this dynasty first entered the palace, she lost her temper because of the hot weather and made the palace restless. The old mothers were searched all over the palace to make piles of cigarette clothes for the queen mother.

The palace people who were lucky enough to see the pile of smoked robes spread rumors, saying that the robes are really extraordinary and indescribable.

And at this moment, what Shen Meifeng is holding in her hand is a pile of smoke clothes.

Although the family background of the Shen family has changed, Shen Meifeng's weaving and embroidery skills are still alive. After Zhao's mother passed away, Shen Meifeng visited Jiaxing again and used the silk brought back to weave a Luoyi. It took three full years to weave.

After the weaving was completed, a room was specially built in the intoxicated spring breeze, and maids with beautiful eyebrows and eyes were hired to make clothes racks. These maids did nothing but only one head. There are no wrinkles either.

The maids came in twos, and they rotated every hour. Now that they were taken out for a look, they were bright and bright, and their luster was as good as new.

Shen Meifengyuan didn't expect this dress either, because today she was trying on clothes for Lan Zhi, somehow, the sky suddenly darkened, crows and clouds rolled heavily, and a ray of sky light was faint in the distance.

After trying on several clothes, it was damp and sweltering, and a thin layer of sweat clinged to the skin, which was sticky and unbearably sticky. A dress is hanging.

The so-called "dot embroidery" is to find every node where the warp and weft threads are interlaced in the criss-cross silk, and embroider a small stitch diagonally, and embroider with small dots one stitch at a time.

In a single smoke or in a cloud of smoke, the number of nodes is already tens of millions and it is difficult to count, and in a pile of smoke on the ground, the number of nodes is multiplied and complicated, and it is difficult to see.

Not only the weaving method and craftsmanship, but even more rare is the kung fu and character. It just so happens that Shen Meifeng has all of these.

The neckline is made of amber stone, which is called "瑿". It looks black in the daytime, but it is extremely red under the light, and its value is five times that of gold.

A pendant pendant of one inch and eight centimeters was wrapped around the waist as a pendant, which faintly shone with golden light. Ordinary pendant beads as large as five centimeters are already precious. Such a large pendant bead is hard to find.

The two cuffs are each surrounded by a circle of sesser beads, and the green light is flowing.

These benefits are all tangible, and there is another unspeakable benefit.

This pile of smoky robes is light and transparent, so it goes without saying that they feel cool and cool when worn on the body. What's even better is that every time you take a step, the robes will slide with it, like layers of clouds and smoke rolling, graceful and graceful.

Just one point, although the shuttle is thicker and more concealed than the curling smoke and misty smoke, it is soft after all, especially for skin tones.

If the skin color can't match it, the whole clothes will be dull and wasteful.

Seeing Lan Rong put on this Luo Yi, the snow-white cloth rolled, Shen Meifeng secretly marveled in her heart, if this Spring Festival is just like clothes, Lan Rong's appearance is simply unparalleled in the world.