Chapter 111 Sophias Job

A week and a half had gone by, and Chief Sophia was thoroughly impressed with the new tools that had been made for the Textile industry.

There were 4 departments within the industry: Inspection & Storage, Thread making, Fabric making, and Sewing.

Of course the Sewing department was also divided into several sectors: Beddings, House & Daily needs, clothing and Size tags.

The bedding department, focused on making bed sheets, pillow cases, blankets, mattress quilts, and every other thing involved with sleep.

For the ’House & Daily Needs’ department, they had to focus on curtains, table cloths, towels and so on.

Of course for the clothing department, his majesty had given them a list of necessities like: Baymard National flags, winter jackets, sweaters, socks, winter gloves, winter hats, scarfs, hoodies and military uniforms.

As well as, industry overalls, lab coats, chef uniforms and aprons, thick shirts (modern style), T-shirts, Turtle neck long sleeve tops, thick pants, singlets and underwear.

For the size tag department, they had to create and sew tiny labels that would be placed at the back of every sewn product.. be it bedsheets, shirts, and even winter hats.

For now, these were all the clothing items required.. but Landon had told them that at the start of every month, new items would be added to the list.

And finally, the inspection & storage department was in charge of checking the quality of the goods, as well as storing and recording the quantity in stock.

Today was the 12th of September, and it was time for Sophia to have her weekly inspection.

She decided to start with the thread making department first.

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"Welcome chief" everybody within the department greeted.

The workers all wore thick rubber boots (should in case something dropped on their legs).... nose masks, and gloves for when they had to dye the threads to different colors, as well as when they were handling animal fur.

Sophia decided to go over to those in charge of washing and combing out the fur.

These animal furs had dirt, and even poop traces on them.... so of course they had to be cleaned with soap.

Sophia inspected inspected their washing process, as well as if the workers were wearing their safety wears or not.

Those who washed and combed the fur, were required to wear gloves, aprons, face masks and rubber boots.

Landon didn’t want any animal faces to touch the workers.... And since he also didn’t want any fur flying up into their nostrils or mouths, they definitely had to wear their face masks while they worked.

It took the workers at least 4 washes and rinses with soap, before the fur looked somewhat clean.

And from there, the workers did 2 more washes before drying the fur on the drying lines.

There were at least 60 long clothing lines at the back of all 4 buildings that were given to the Textile industry... so Landon had then dry these furs there.

Once the fur was dry, another group of people started combing out the fur.

At this point it was basically treated like human hair.. the workers combed it out leaving no knots that would hinder the production phase.

And within each room, there were metal framed shelves, which separated each color from the next.

These shelves were ceiling high, and each color had at least 2 rows within the rooms.

Sophia carefully inspected the products within the storage rooms, and after confirming that there hadn’t been issues or complaints from the workers, she headed over to the next department.

Fabric Making.

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For this department, the workers used steam weaving machines called a ’Loom’, to produce fabric.

Sophia also thought that this was one of the most ingenious inventions ever.

Presently, hand weaving devices already existed, and basically looked like large rectangular harps.

The threads would pass through the strings of the harps, as if they were weaving a basket.

And once they were done weaving, they would remove the stick that was placed at the bottom of their harp-like device and gently slide their woven fabric out.

The problem with this was that it was too time consuming... Hence Landon decided to make steam powered weaving machines.

Once again back on earth in the 17th century, someone had successfully modified the Loom and made it to work mechanically on steam.

All the workers had to do was feed water to the machines, as well as thread... And from there, the machine would weave and create fabric on its own.

This machine was 1.4 meters in width, and could obviously sew fabrics around the same width measurements

So this machine could make fabrics as wide as large carpets.

With this machine, several thread rolls of different colors could be placed at once, so as to create different patterns.

Like for example, the middle of the fabric could be blue, which the outer corners could be white...

This was also good in making striped bed sheets.

Landon had given this department several design specifications for the fabrics... All they had to do was follow the written instructions, and the fabric would be produced.

For example: they could put light grey in thread feeder 1, black in thread feeder 2, and so on.

And once the fabrics were made, the Inspection & Storage department would take it from there.

1 out of the 4 Textile industry buildings was used just for storage of all materials, be it socks, fabrics or even blankets.

5 rooms were assigned for fabric storage.

The first 3 were used to store all single-colored fabric materials.. while the last 2 stored those that were either multicolored or had patterns on them.

After Sophia was done with her Inspection, she headed over to the Sewing department.