The main work of the dye shop is to dye or bleach silk, cotton, etc. In order to smooth, smooth and dry the cloths, it is also necessary to strike repeatedly on the tablets with a stick, which is also called "light cloth" and which is now ironed with iron。
There is also a hiatus: the slabs in front of the dyed door — some of the big hammers that describe people as having suffered and seen the world. The rods of this dye shop are rounded and have ellipses。
If so, you can hire a kicker like this dye shop. A kicker's armrail, with his feet on both ends of a dented “charade”, moves around the right and the left and rolls the cloths by twirling the scrolls of the cloths, which are drying, stretching, pressuring and flattening, and the dye cloths that are rolled by the kicker have glitter and smoothing features。
Among the many types of work in dyeshops, kickers are the most special. In the middle of the day, suzhou has as many as 20,000 kickers. With the increase in the number of kickers, the kickers are gradually being separated from the dyeshops, and the kickers are becoming a trade union-like organization, managed by “packheads”. Most of the kickers in suzhou are people in the gangpei who work hard, earn less and are vulnerable to unemployment due to injuries and illness. The jobless kicker can only be found in the city's temple, etc., known as a “floating stick”。
In order to strengthen the management of kickers, in the fifty-ninth year (1720), governor su and wu xing county published the kickers pact, which incorporated the day-to-day performance of kickers into the management of the security company and the garrison, as follows:
The five scramblings will keep each other safe and take a copy, one of them will commit the same crime, four of them will work on a daily basis, and the night will be closed down if they perceive each other's security and the head of the community。
At the end of the day, with the introduction of the textile machine, the fabric that had been made was soft enough not to “knock”, so the process of crushing it on the betelstone was omitted and the kicker slowly withdrew from the historical stage。
It shows that the dye shop is run in the form of a shop with a desk at the door, and that the elderly person sitting next to the desk is the owner of the dye shop. The dye shop contains three casseroles, which are dyed first by burning up the water in the clinker, adding the appropriate amount of dye, mixing it with a wooden stick, and if the clinker changes, then the cloth can be boiled and fully dyed. Get dyed and get out, cool. In the middle of the dye shop, there is a wooden stake, which, when cooled, is twisted into a “u” shape, placed on the stake, and the workers are twisting both sides of the cloth. The role of the logs is to prevent the slips from falling. Next to the dye shop is the suzhou river, and the water that is being pumped out will flow directly into the river through the square gap below。
