The game starts with escaping from the famine and flipping the table
Chapter 664: Amazement of Plant Dyeing
Xuan Ming looked at the goshawk and couldn't help but sigh at Su Xiaoya's good luck. Before he could remind Su Xiaoya, the girl had already attacked the goshawk with her instinct like a beast.
The key point is that her friends acted directly without any hesitation and cooperated tacitly to block the goshawk.
This trust and tacit understanding made Xuan Ming's blood boil, and he couldn't help but recall the little things he did with his brothers when he was young.
The trust and tacit understanding between them are no less than that between Su Xiaoya and her group.
It’s a pity that things have changed and everything is over!
A silent sigh.
Xuan Ming calmed down and looked at the field. When his eyes passed over Tushan Xiaoya, Xuan Ming once again sighed at Su Xiaoya's good luck.
Tushan Xiaoya only played a piece of music called "High Mountains and Flowing Water", not "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix", but it actually attracted white birds. The key point is that it actually attracted the twelve divine creatures from Ju Mang's territory.
No matter how I look at it, it feels like a hawk walking into a trap.
Although, this goshawk seems to be a little worthless, which is hard to describe.
Still, it's pretty good.
Who made Xuan Ming's thoughts change to leaving this mustard seed space as soon as possible? To be precise, Xuan Ming is now in the same group with Su Xiaoya.
Seeing Su Xiaoya catch the goshawk, Xuan Ming felt particularly at ease in his heart - at this rate, he believed that Su Xiaoya and the others would be able to collect all twelve divine items soon.
I don’t know what Qingyuan Star looks like now.
Witch clan, are you okay?
Ugh!
I’m afraid it’s not very good.
This has been happening since the past ten thousand years, when the number of descendants of the Wu clan who were able to enter the Jie Zi space has been decreasing, and their strength has been decreasing, until finally no more descendants of the Wu clan could enter. Xuan Ming had already made this guess.
More and more outsiders came in. Although they could not ask questions, the twelve witch ancestors were all busy with various things and had no time to ask.
However, this phenomenon itself explains a lot of things.
As for the twelve witch ancestors, apart from taking advantage of the opening of the Jie Zi space to send out as much supplies as possible, they could not do more.
It was because they never thought that they would go out again.
Facts have proved that if Su Xiaoya and her group had not arrived, it is hard to say what would have happened to others, but at least Xuanming would have died. Shebishi and Big Brother Dijiang would probably be in danger as well.
Fortunately, Su Xiaoya and the others came in.
Now, Xuanming even saw the hope of collecting all twelve divine items.
Unlike Xuanming who was full of confidence, Gonggong had just joined the team and had never experienced the magic of Su Xiaoya and her group.
Seeing the goshawk clearly walking into the trap, yet pretending to be caught, it just hurts my eyes.
Is Ju Mang's vision so bad?
When Su Xiaoya put the goshawk into the spirit beast bag, Gonggong was shocked.
Spirit beast bag!
It used to be a very common thing, but it is really rare nowadays.
Gonggong saw clearly that this spirit beast bag was conjured out of thin air by Su Xiaoya.
Gonggong looked at Xuanming and found that Xuanming was calm and composed, as if he was used to it.
Gonggong turned around and looked at Su Xiaoya, and couldn't help but frowning slightly.
After a while, Gonggong looked at Yu Shuheng, Bai Yiyi, Yu Wenjianyu and Tushan Xiaoya again. This team has a big secret!
Miraculously, after catching the goshawk, Su Xiaoya and her group seemed to have put the matter of the goshawk behind them. Now they were back among the elites of the five major tribes, magically continuing the previous topic.
The key point is, aren't these young people curious? Not a single one of them even asked.
I really don’t know whether these young people are carefree or not.
In fact, it’s not that the elites of the five major tribes are careless, but the magic of Su Xiaoya and her group has long conquered these young people.
What's more, when they came out, the leaders and great witches of their respective tribes warned them to get along well with Su Xiaoya and her group, and warned everyone to watch, listen and learn more along the way, and never interfere with the decisions of Su Xiaoya and her group.
Of course, if you need to take action, you are not allowed to hesitate and hold back. At the critical moment, you must protect your life.
Because Su Xiaoya and her group are the only hope for their five major tribes to leave the mustard seed space.
Therefore, no matter how curious these young people were, they suppressed it deep in their hearts.
Everyone tacitly returned to the original topic, and the conversation became lively again.
Gui Qiangye finally understood that these friends who usually couldn't even do a single word were now trying their best to express themselves.
Daddy was right. The more they showed off now, the more Su Xiaoya and her siblings would see their own advantages. After leaving this mustard seed space, their tribe would be able to exchange more supplies with Su Xiaoya. Su Xiaoya could even provide some other support to her tribe.
"The one who was in charge of the dyeing affairs, Huizhi, won the praise of everyone with his outstanding skills and talents, and was awarded the honor of the official of the industry."
"He was entrusted with a vital mission - to coordinate and set up the so-called Five Colors Works, the most important of which was the remarkable dyeing technology."
After the introduction, Gui Qiangye then began to explain the dyeing process to everyone in an eloquent manner.
Hui Zhijia, Wu Yefeng and others looked at Gui Qiangye with complicated eyes.
Sure enough, not everyone can be a prominent figure.
Look at it now, everyone is still trying hard to divert their curiosity, but Gui Qiangye has already sorted out his mentality, his thoughts are clear, and he has begun to popularize dyeing knowledge to everyone in a humorous way.
Everyone saw the goshawk on Hui Zhijia's quiver; everyone also saw the goshawk caught by Su Xiaoya and the others.
If you say there is no connection between the two, no one would believe it.
Now, no one would think that these jade slips of anecdotes in their own library were useless books.
But no one knows which one will trigger the magical chain reaction.
In this case, of course everyone should share all the miscellaneous notes that they know.
Ah!
The more detailed the better.
Of course, if you have any related items, you must take them out and show them off without hesitation, and you must not keep them to yourself.
After all, who can be sure that the object won't be a clue? !
Right!
The young people who have figured it out are particularly excited.
However, at this moment, the stage has been occupied by Gui Qiangye. Everyone ponders over the various anecdotes and even the storybooks they have read; while listening carefully to Gui Qiangye's talk, they are determined not to miss any special details.
When talking about dyeing techniques, we have to mention several of the most representative techniques.
The first is tie-dyeing, which requires fine needle-punching or clever tying techniques to prevent certain parts of the fabric from being stained by dye during dyeing, thus creating unique and exquisite patterns.
Next is blue printing, which uses a hollow plate and a special anti-dyeing agent to draw exquisite patterns on the surface of the fabric in a unique way of scraping, and then carefully dyeing it.
There is also the mysterious and fascinating batik technique, which uses the anti-dyeing properties of beeswax or insect wax. After a series of complex dyeing and dewaxing processes, it can present a wonderful texture effect like ice cracks.
In addition to studying these dyeing techniques, Huizhi also devoted himself to studying how to dye different colors.
There’s nothing you can do about it, Huizhi is a color control freak and likes bright colors the most.
In order to explore more mysteries of colors, the pheasant worked tirelessly and tried more than 100 kinds of plants with different shapes.
The leaves, stems, roots, bark, flowers and even fruits of these plants have all been repeatedly experimented on.
It has to be said that these are the sources of rich colors.
Dyeing is divided into four steps: boiling, soaking, exposure and dyeing. However, due to the different seasons in which plants grow, the differences in origin, and the different ways of extracting colors, the final dyeing effect will have a certain degree of difference in color and texture.
This made Huizhi feel both painful and happy during the experiment.
However, it is precisely this ever-changing nature that gives plant dyeing its unique characteristics and endless charm.
This also caused Huizhi to become uncontrollable and devote himself to the experiment wholeheartedly.
This natural dyeing method is also called "plant dyeing" or "wood dyeing". It includes plant dyes (such as indigo), animal dyes (such as lac) and mineral dyes (such as cinnabar). Among them, plant dyes are the most commonly used and have the most abundant types of materials.
Natural dyeing can not only produce a variety of bright and high-saturation colors, but also a large number of delicate intermediate colors.
Elegant colors are nature's most generous gift. Through re-dyeing at different times and in different hues, richer and more timeless color levels can be created.
For example, we extract dyes from minerals and plants in nature, and call blue, yellow, red, white and black the five colors, which are also the original colors. Then we mix the five colors to get other colors, such as green, purple, pink, etc., which are also called intermediate colors.
The sources of natural dyeing dyes can be divided into two categories: mineral pigments and plant dyes.
Animals are rarely used because only a few can be used for dyeing, except for the red pigment contained in cochineal insects that parasitize on different plants and the purple dye produced by shellfish.
Shellfish can secrete a liquid that changes from yellow to green and blue and finally to purple when exposed to air. It is considered a precious purple dye.
The most commonly used dyes are plant and mineral dyes.
Mineral dyes are various inorganic metal salts and metal oxides, mainly brown-red, light green, yellow, and white. After crushing and mixing, more than 20 color spectra can be obtained; such as cinnabar.
Plant dyes are so colorful that you can’t imagine!
Not only the various vegetables and delicious fruits we see in daily life can be used to extract dyes, but even those Chinese medicinal materials with magical medicinal effects can become an important source of dyes.
For example, green tea, black tea, oolong tea, and Pu'er tea can all be used as dyes.
Even the humble loofah leaves and onion peels can be used as raw materials.
In addition, there are a large number of woody plants and herbaceous plants that can serve as high-quality raw materials for making dyes, which are truly countless.
Among them, when it comes to cyan dyes, most of them come from "indigo" plants. The "five indigo" here include: tea indigo, indigo, indigo, indigo, and indigo. These five blue plants have their own characteristics, but together they provide us with pure and rich cyan dyes.
Of course, in addition to the common plants mentioned above, there are many other wild plants in the vast nature that also contain rich color dye ingredients.
For example, the unique color of the Dioscorea plant is eye-catching; there are also the bright red flowers, the charmingly colorful madder, the elegantly fragrant gardenia, and the hard-textured Sappanwood, etc.
It must be mentioned that the use of plant dyes for printing and dyeing has many significant advantages.
First of all, the colors it presents are diverse, whether it is the fresh and refined light colors or the bright and attractive dark colors, it has everything to meet people's needs for various colors.
Secondly, the colors produced by plant dyes are often extremely bright and eye-catching, as if the colorful colors of nature were directly transferred to the fabric.
More importantly, the color fastness of fabrics treated with plant dyes is excellent. Even after long-term exposure to sunlight or repeated washing and rubbing, the dyed color can remain stable and is not prone to fading.
This means that clothing and other textiles carefully dyed with plant dyes are outstanding in terms of both beauty and durability.
Take the indigo used to dye blue, for example. It is a wonderful substance that is contained in the lush branches and leaves of the indigo plant.
After undergoing a specific fermentation process, the indigo originally hidden deep inside will be transformed into a white solution with soluble characteristics.
Next, people just need to completely immerse the fabric to be dyed into this magical solution, then carefully take it out and place it in the vast air to receive the warm embrace and baptism of the sun.
As time goes by, the surface of these dyed fabrics gradually takes on a fascinating blue-green color!
What’s even more amazing is that once the coloring is completed, this unique color can not only withstand the long-term scorching sun, but also withstand repeated water washing impacts. Even high-temperature heating cannot easily cause it to fade or change its original color.
In this way, clothes and textiles dyed with indigo are undoubtedly of extremely high quality. No matter what kind of test they go through, they can always maintain their charming brilliance and durability.
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