What are the knitting methods of handmade thread?

Hand-woven fabrics need to go through four steps: twisting, spinning, warping, brushing, reeling, sewing and weaving.

Hand-woven fabrics must be twisted first. That is, carefully selected cotton is pulled into small balls, and then the cotton balls are twisted into cotton tubes with thin sticks like chopsticks. Then use the ancient spinning wheel to spin the thread. This kind of spinning wheel uses all manpower, and a weaver can only spin six or two threads at most a day.

Then there are warp yarns, which determine the color and texture of the finished fabric. A fixed warp machine needs to carry more than 500 cotton threads back and forth for 4 kilometers through the cloth of a machine, while the cloth of a machine is only 12.

At the stage of brushing silk, it is also very exhausting. It is necessary to comb more than 500 threads that have been combed clearly, just like combing your hair.

Dig it out. This step is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Before putting each warp into the computer, each thread must pass through more than 500 rafters. The gap in the rafters is as thin as a hair, so don't make mistakes. Once you make a mistake, you must start all over again.

Shuttle thread is a thread wound on a stick with a spinning wheel and placed in the shuttle, also called weft.

Finally, the cloth is woven by four-shed braiding method. Four-shed braiding is a unique braiding method in Hebei Province. This loom is composed of four pedals and four braiding rings, and its difficulty coefficient is very high. Now only some old people can learn it.