Can old cotton be re-spun?

Old cotton can be re-spun.

Most people also use old cotton to re-stretch it. Tools for playing cotton include large wooden bows with beef tendons as strings; wooden hammers, shovel heads, millstones, etc. When playing, use wooden hammers to hit the strings frequently to make the cotton on the board gradually loosen. Then two people will use yarn on both sides of the cotton batting to form a mesh vertically and horizontally to fix the cotton batting. After the gauze is in place, press it with a wooden disc to make it flat, solid and firm.

According to folk custom, the yarn used is generally white. However, the cotton batting used as dowry must be made of red and green yarn to show good luck. If the old cotton is to be re-spun, the old yarn on the surface must be removed first, then rolled into a bundle, held on a shovel head full of nail heads with both hands to tear it loose, and then used a bow to re-spring.

Extended information

The main process of refurbishing old quilts:

1. First, put the cotton of the old quilts on the opening machine for opening. Carding

2. Then put the cotton carded out from the opening machine to a large fine stretch machine

3. After carding a bed according to the cotton weight, put it directly Cut it to size on the kneading board of the cotton kneading machine and lay the netting on it.

4. After laying the network cable, push the cotton kneading machine to knead. It usually takes 2-5 minutes to knead one side. In this way, an old quilt is refurbished and a new quilt is made.

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