"Loom" for Old Objects series

Many scenic spots still see this kind of loom, just to restore the scene in the old days, and every time I see this machine, I always think of the scene in the mother's painstaking weaving.When I was a child in the 1980s and 1990s, the countryside was better off and no longer worried about food, but the economy was still poor and I didn't have much power to make sheets and quilts out of rags.Therefore, most of the mothers in rural areas will be in the slack time of the farming thread weaving, to meet the clothing of the whole family, even a towel is to use their own woven cloth instead.Big to marry her daughter's bedding, small to the sole of cotton shoes, cotton-padded jacket inside, are mothers a shuttle black and white night weaving.

The reason to see these things with emotion, because too many life memories and it linked together, and the mother's work in the old figure linked together, and their mother's side to keep the good time linked together.

For no thread was yet to be bought in the country fairs, and all was made by grandma and mother who stayed up late to spin cotton droning it from one end to the other, which goes back to the many labors of the self-sufficient days.For example, they set aside some cotton to roll the cotton, play the cotton, rub the cloth, spin the cotton, inverted loom and so on. Besides working in the fields and cooking on the fire, all the women had left to do was spinning and weaving.Therefore, when I was a child, I slept with my grandmother or my mother, and the humming sound of the spinning wheel accompanied me to sleep, but I was awakened in the late night. In addition, the dim and weak light of the kerosene lamp projected the back image of my mother and grandma's hard work, which was deeply engraved in my childhood memories.Compared to the children now selfish and unreasonable, lazy, compared to our previous children are very obedient and sensible, know considerate parents, careful to think, is really not easy to see and experience the parents.Many children in the family, busy farming livelihoods, adults hard to eat and wear no leisure, which have time to let children naughty unreasonable?Not to criticize you lazy, also need not letting you do this do that, only you can see the adults back tired body in the field and staying up late to work, you don't have the heart to idle, learningenglish mow grass after digging up food, help the fire cooking, cleaning, sisters and brothers also supervise each other mutual aid, the thick affection is more sincere than rich days of heavy.

Every spring to the sunny days, the mother will call aunt aunt people pull wire brush machine, the so-called pull wire is the need to arrange the warp wire carded into bundles, and then sizing, that is, brush machine.Because the life is not more rich, white or nervous, when the mother boil good white sweet porridge pulp, children inevitably beg to taste, which does not have to describe the delicious.Then (brush) the finished thread into more comb one by one, put on the loom, and get the shuttle ready and you can loom.

In the summer, we children still have the possibility of a nap, and my mother after lunch to weave for a while, clanging clanging with me to sleep, and in the clanging sound of the familiar was called to school by my mother.Now and then I would creep up on the loom, and weave a few shuttles like a weaver's shuttle, and even occasionally break my mother's thread.Mother will not be angry, but also patient to teach me, let me do secretly, its tolerance and expectations of the teaching, give us children unbridled practice experience intentions, let me later become a teacher in the true meaning of education is very sigh with emotion, children's first teacher, and the best teacher in life is mother.Sometimes children's education is not so profound, as long as you are the norm, as long as you demonstrate and guide, as long as you silently look at the child to experience and perceive, and more importantly, you need to encourage a look, to provide children with a relaxed harmonious happy family atmosphere is enough.

A loom is a guarantee for the clothing and bedding of the whole family. It is also a witness of the skill of a female worker. It is the position where the mothers in those days loved their family and worked arduously and arduously.Often see such a machine, remind us that there is no reason not to love their mother, there is no reason not for the mother's hard work to give respect and understanding, more there is no reason to forget the bitter taste of those years.

Now I still keep the mother hand-woven sheets, reluctant to use, occasionally take out the New Year on the spread, lying on the bed can smell the mother's taste, feel the mother's love, more through the thick and clear threads of the experience of the hard work of the mother, and the mother behind the housework is not easy.Now there are also a lot of selling old coarse linen sheets, but not as good as the mother's own hand a wisp of weaving, is not faded is from the ball, or wash a few times on the bad, the design and color of the craft is getting better and better, but a look is not manual, there is no maternal love weaving in the inside, there is no taste of home.Now mother is getting older and older, the loom is gone, and there will be no more shuttles weaving, but the memory is still there, the love is still continuing, and the beautiful life is getting better and better.

A weaving machine, weaving the whole family's good life, witnessed the vicissitudes of her mother's life, but also weaving out of the deep love, sweet memories of childhood.