The "Thread Woman" had nimble hands and finished binding the coils in about three hours, completing the thread lift stick.
Then, Ma Lin taught her how to arrange the vertical threads.
This time, flat wooden strips were used as winding sticks, which could wrap more thread with each turn.
Ma Lin helped cut the threads into twenty-meter sections, and she arranged them herself.
He also used eight wooden stakes planted in the ground outside.
Each thread was stretched taut, exactly twenty meters long. Odd-numbered rows of thread passed through the loop under the lift stick and then went beneath the pressing stick. Even-numbered rows went through the gaps between the loops and then over the pressing stick. The threads were arranged densely.
It took nearly eight hours to thread everything, and then the winding stick was used to roll up the nearly twenty-meter-long threads, ensuring they didn't cross or tangle during the process.
