Chapter 1535: Chapter 1532: Two Types of Looms
The embroiderers following behind quickly nodded, took a seat, and after a while, looked at the loom with a slightly red face, "Lady, this servant girl doesn't know how to use it..."
This loom was specifically ordered by Ye Muyu from the craftsmen. Currently, the commoners of Great Chu still use machines similar to the eighteenth-century spinning jenny abroad.
However, Ye Muyu's improved loom, which resembles spinning mules that appeared a hundred years later, combines the benefits of the spinning jenny and the fine spin machine, capable of spinning 48 strands of fine yarn simultaneously.
With an appropriate foot-pedal shuttle, a single embroiderer could originally weave half a bolt in one day, but with the new loom, it can now be increased to five or six bolts.
Ye Muyu walked over, teaching the embroiderers how to use it. After a while of guidance, the embroiderers quickly learned and began weaving fabric.
Just after trying it out for fifteen minutes, they had already woven an inch of fabric.
Chun Xing saw it clearly and was somewhat surprised, "Lady, isn't this too fast?"
The embroiderers were even more excited, "Lady, can this servant girl use this loom for work from now on?"
Su Mei calculated alongside, pondered for a brief moment, had already figured out the speed, her eyes slightly lit up, and looked at Ye Muyu with admiration, "Lady, at this speed, an embroiderer can weave six bolts of fabric a day. If it's linen or cotton fabric, the speed will be even faster."
Commoners cannot afford silk, but there is a great demand for cotton and linen fabrics. Su Mei has been helping with cotton harvesting recently and can see that the lady is preparing to produce cotton and linen fabrics, with silk as a secondary priority.
This statement was also in line with the lady's intentions.
Ye Muyu indeed felt cheerful and waved grandly, "Come on, there are still machines we haven't seen. Embroiderers, you can gradually familiarize yourselves with the loom."
"Thank you, Lady." The embroiderers were so joyous they danced around with hands and feet. With such advanced looms, labor costs will decrease, and they will be more relaxed while weaving, receiving real benefits, naturally grateful, and obsessing over the new loom deeply.
They together walked into the adjacent workshop.
The entire workshop was quite large, but there were only two looms inside.
And beneath the looms, there were pools connected to the moat in the capital.
"What is this?" Chun Xing curiously circled around the loom, looking again and again.
Ye Muyu explained with a smile, "This is a water-powered loom, it doesn't need manual labor, the water power can drive the loom."
"Seriously, this powerful?" Chun Xing's mouth slightly opened in surprise, looking at her lady with admiration beyond words. If the previous loom reform is going to bring significant change to the entire fabric industry, then the water-powered loom is like a gold ingot, without needing to think, just hearing the name, one knows how much profit it will bring.
The water-powered loom is quite large, so ordinary households can't possibly use it, it can only be built by the riverside or along the shores of a river, needing water power. Just one such water-powered loom can produce hundreds of bolts of cotton fabric per day, completely surpassing manual labor in terms of output.
Ye Muyu spoke with ideas already formed in her mind.
This time, the ones who came along were all her trusted ones.
Even the workshop was guarded by Lu Chuan's guards, and the gatekeeper also had some skills.
The embroiderers were not summoned, only the embroiderer just now was chosen by Ye Muyu to start nurturing.
"From today onwards, our workshop will start weaving cotton fabric."
Ye Muyu began busying with Su Mei, recruiting embroiderers, signing contracts, with any embroiderer who leaked Chu family workshop secrets.
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