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How a thousand quilt is made

First of all, the cotton bow, bow bamboo equipment on the body, and then began to play cotton, to play all the cotton into a fluffy soft like white clouds, gently touched like cotton candy as soft, this is a strength work, not easy. The second is to arrange the soft cotton into the desired size, such as 1.8 meters of the bed applicable quilt length 2 meters wide 1.8 meters. After arranging the cotton, put the flower sieve on top of the cotton to screen the dirty and poor cotton. The third step is to pass the red quilting thread through the holes of the yarn stick, with the help of two people to put the red quilting thread on the cotton to make a mesh structure, and then repeat the process with the white quilting thread. The fourth is to press with a stack of pots so that the cotton and quilting threads become entangled with each other, making the quilt stronger and less likely to separate. The fifth is to do a good job on one side, flip the cotton to play the other side, repeat the above 2, 3, 4, 5 steps, so that the quilt has been initially done. The last is to put the pile of pots on the quilt, the whole person standing on it, twisting the pile of pots, which makes the fluffy quilt become strong, not easy to break.

Now most of the quilts we sleep on are down quilts, stretch quilts, down quilts, but the quilts used by people in the 1970s, 80s and even earlier were handmade, and with the advancement of technology and the high-speed development of the times, the craftsmanship will also be lost.