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Article: Washtag: RED1354 - Delving into a traditional Nälkä tribe
Author: Chromeblushowo Chromeblushowo
Original: 洗標:紅1354-深入傳統納餓卡部落
Translator: Kikunai Kikunai
rating: +2
After the beginning of the Age of the Sorcerer-King, blood has its own mind; the symbolic seals were carved on skin through blood and weaved on delicate hands. Those who are not soaked in blood knew nothing about this craft; they simply saw the revivification of the Sorcerer-King and His Klavigars.
The girl in bondage extended both of her arms while the blade repeatedly swept across her skin. Crimson blood pulsates in veins, and spills out when they are cut, from her neck to the bottom of her long dress. The Karcist decorated their ivory cloak with red, while the girl collapsed in her own pool of blood. The Sorcerer-King will guide this young girl to sublimity, as she had committed to her duty.
——Sone Ankis
Lately, I've started visiting our shareholders, who gracefully invested Jie Chun Laundry back in the day one by one, as well as expanding our business in the region. The term "investment" doesn't necessarily refer to purely monetary transactions, but also those who were willing to support or help operating the business by providing places, manpower, or even technology. The combined support of our shareholders has let us to provide various services in a global scale.
I was planning to visit Mongolia alone to thank our shareholders there. Coincidentally, Ms. Shiu from the Monthly Magazine Department has mentioned she has befriended their daughter during university, and therefore was invited to this journey. The visit is hence included in this issue of the magazine.
Shiu is a city-dwelling Nälkän, or some refers to them as "Neo-Sarkics". Shiu said her friend Ulaan is one of the young people who headed south, but it is surprising to see a conservative Nälkän tribe has allowed Ulaan to study in the metropolis. Perhaps the tribe has opened up a lot due to external trading — this is how Jie Chun was able to come into contact with a Nälkän tribe, and became our only traditional Nälkän business location.
In principle, to enter the tribe, all technological product, such as camera, is prohibited. I had to triple confirm that my mechanical watch with Shiu before I was allowed to leave, and this is the only technological product we brought into the tribe. Shiu's backpack was filled with notebooks and sketchbooks.
At 5am, Shiu and I flew from Taipei to Hong Kong for a connecting flight to Genghis Khan Airport in Mongolia. We then hired a car and drove to a car park half a kilometre away from the tribe's territory. This 0.5km is the final compromise of the tribe. "If you want to go to the city, this is the place where we go our separate ways." And if we go a bit closer, the colour of the soil is distinctly different from that of the outside, as if some sort of deep red ink was soaked by the land. Shiu said although the colour is visually identical, it is in fact not laterite, but stained by something much simpler.
Meeting with Mrs. Juo Ya
Ulaan's mother, i.e. the shareholder I'm visiting — Mrs. Juo Ya was waiting for us at the entrance of the tribe. Mrs. Juo Ya is a typical Nälkä intelligentsia, as such her ways of speech and mannerisms were very elegant. She married a Soviet permanent employee who came to work during the Soviet era; after the Soviet collapsed, she gave Ulaan a Mongolian name with short Chinese characters in the hopes she could study in China.
"Long time no see, Mr. Yuan Heng. I am pleased to see you again." Like many skincare-loving Karcists, her palm was fair and firm, unlike those whose have laboured for about fifty years, and her handshake was sturdy.
After a short chit-chat, Shiu and I settled our luggage in a permanent employee hostel located at the outskirts of the tribe. Juo Ya began to guide me around; she seemed more relaxed than when we were meeting for business earlier.
"This land holds the blood of this tribe for almost a thousand years. The earth gives birth to life, and we will eventually return to the earth. The bone marrow penetrates deep into the soil, while the blood enters and accumulates in the lakes along the rivers."
Such is the awe and reverence of a traditional tribe for Mother Earth. However, unlike typical tribes, Nälkän tribes has a lot more resource for offering and sustaining itself due to their culture. Juo Ya explained that for the last several centuries, the village is located in a major transportation route, and was compelled to receive information from the outside world. As a result, they have a relatively open mind. According to the customs, if a member decided to leave the tribe and strive in the outside world, they must insert their thigh bone onto the ground as a gratitude.
Instead of typical Nälkän offerings like sarcomas, bones are considered more suitable due to the traditions and jobs in the tribe. The tribe's location has been in a major transport route in the Western region since before modern technology made it easy to get around. It became difficult to practice traditional Nälkän customs that involves wounding and cannibalising when various merchants would gathered around the area. On the other hand, the clash of different cultures has created a unique sense of art in the tribe.
They value the textile industry as they prefer body tissues and spells that can create art, and so it is not uncommon for them to carry carvings made out of sarcomas or fabrics adorned with patterns. Karcists in the village have turned into "magic weavers" who don't have to worry about weaving materials since they can source from themselves. Thus, fabrics have become their canvases for them to adorn decorative patterns.
Due to the nearly 100-year-old Veil Protocol, most of their products cannot be sold to customers outside the veil, and so their main patrons have been city-dwelling Nälkäns who enjoys art appraisal. However, Mrs. Juo Ya worries their product cannot catch up with the trends of time, and this is why she invested in Jie Chun.
Tool preparation
Mrs. Juo Ya led us to the dyeing workshop. Ulaan was there with her designer team to accelerate their dye jobs for Spring Festival. Ulaan in a traditional Nälkän long working skirt sat on a short stool. In front of her were clothes fixed on hangers and ready to be dyed.
Mrs Juo Ya gave her a whispery reminder before leaving first, and let Ulaan to introduce the process.
Ulaan: "We realised that if we'd like mobile access to dyes, it's best to store them in our body so that we don't have to fetch water from the well or use a waterskin. Our power can keep our body tissues alive for a long time; the bones in the soil can still make blood like normal."
Ulaan: "But it's easy for the blood in the soil to flow into the river, so we've been absorbing it from the ground as well as making more blood inside our body, and store it into our Akuloth between the pelvis. We would eat more roasted meat the night before work, though as we're working all-nighters lately we have been eating red meat three meals a day."
Ulaan used her hand and a watercolour brush for her dyeing works. The blood dripped on the floor gathered and coagulated under Ulaan's long skirt. Shiu then started sketching her working posture.
Ulaan: "Usually the lower abdomen will swell a bit when the Akuloth is filled with blood, so it's best to sit on a stool so that it'd be quicker to clean it up when it spills."
Interviewer: "Is there a reason you're wearing a long skirt? Isn't it better if you wear it short and wouldn't stain your own clothes?"
Ulaan: "It's unsightly! The blood comes from below to our arms through the surface of our skin; even boys wear skirts for dye works. Akuloth doesn't pump blood through our blood vessels. If the blood comes from our urethra, that's called haematuria, and we can't use it for dyeing."
Patterns and Colours
// — The focus is not the sarcoma, but the blood that can be smudged and dotted.//
Ulaan: "Traditional Nälkän patterns have been a popular choice for a millennium, though our designer team would blend modern design into our dye work. Red is a common colour in Nälkän culture, and we have been exploring what we can do to make each clothing more unique. This one has patterns of a yurt."
Ulaan gave me a few colour swatches of red specifically for Nälkän art, some of the colours are uncommonly deep.
Ulaan: "Most of the business we undertake from Jie Chun is redyeing. Since we only accept Nälkän clothing, all clothings we're dealing with are dyed red or stained in blood. Most patterns on Nälkän garments are blood-dyed, just like the clothes we produce, so if they have some unpleasant blood stains, we would have to redye them. There are no layers on fabrics, blood will only mix together if they come contact with each other, and so what we can only is to record them and copy from the original."
Ulaan took a clothing with tentacles from another person, and gave me a Washtag fresh from the printer.
Washtag number: 1354
Traditional Nälkän long dress with octopus tentacles
Large blood stain at the back, original colour #E04D09
—From Adobe Colour Palette
Ulaan: "You see, only those without major damage, albeit hard to redye, would be sent to this village. First, we will have to absorb all bloodstains that aren't from the original material; we would have to record the dyes that cannot be absorbed. Then, we will do a test run. The point of blood-dyeing is to let it be absorbed into the very core of the fibre, and it'll be the most optimal if we succeed on first try."
As the size of the dress was too large, Ulaan quickly ran out of blood. She then took out a craft knife from her dress pocket and proficiently slashed her left wrist quite a few times. "Don't let the other see this, or they'll get scared," she said. The tentacles seemed to have absorbed enough nutrients, began swinging around, and finally landed on Ulaan's head.
"Mom! This thing bites people! What should I do?"
Regardig Ulaan returning to her hometown to work & Her experience during work
After work, Mrs. Juo Ya has prepared a sumptuous Nälkän dinner. Me and Shiu took this opportunity to ask Ulaan what she thinks about her work.
"See, that's my left thigh bone." Ulaan pointed to a thinner bone outside the house. "I was planning to stick it to the ground when I left the town to go to a secondary school in Beijing, but the elders said it wasn't ideal for a child to remove her bone during puburty, though later I did it during a university turn break. It was painful! But compared to the elders in my family, my age and skills are still considered as that of a child."
"After I graduated, I kept pondering what I can do, and I had no luck finding jobs. Later, I decided to return to my hometown with a couple of city-dwelling Nälkän classmates to see what they're up to, and at that point I realised I had zero clue what our family business is even about."
"It was agonising. There is no internet, no TV, the village would rather use spell-controled mailman mannequins than to build telepoles, so we would ride the mannequins to go to a nearby town and watch football matches. Mom didn't say anything back then." Ulaan explains that the mailman mannequins is a type of assemblable entity with limbs shaped like a horse.
"Those things are wickedly fast. One time I reassembled it to look like a Porsche racecar. Ulaan's mother looked so pissed to the point she almost lost it." Shiu said it only took one second to accelerate from zero to a hundred. It used a heartbeat engine provided by the friend who designed the car's appearance. "Though at last she took a ride with us."
"I didn't have an Akuloth when I started my dyeing work, so I'd have to slash my wrist. It was excruciating." Ulaan extended her arms and did a wrist-slitting gesture. "Not only have I shed tears, the scars were quite irregular and obvious. At last, I got my hands tied with a cloth in my mouth, or else I'd keep struggling. 'Mom, how can I do delicate work when you tied both of my hands?' Something like that."
The bond with this land
Interviewer: "How do you tie the culture of this earth and the things you learnt in school?"
Ulaan: "I'm aware there are outsiders that claims city-dwelling Nälkäns only think about themselves. If I have to be serious, when me and my team took fashion design as our major, all we thought were designs. Whether it's skills from Nälkä or skills taught in schools, those are things we learnt to pursue our ambitions.
Ulaan: "What me and my team are doing is to blend the designs we learnt from school with traditional Nälkän patterns so that we can express our philosophy. We hope to let different Nälkän groups from around the world, or even outsiders to see we aren't tied to a specific era, but to find our own value in this ever-changing world."
Ulaan: "There has to be someone to take up blood-dyeing even when no one wants to, though it's something only our family has been doing for a long time, but there is no one else on Earth who provides this service if we don't. There is no choice but to keep going even when this path is bitter."
Hardship faced by the industry and her hometown
"Sometimes we face new challenges that cannot be solved in the traditional ways. The tribe used to handle human leather, while guests would bring fabrics made of cotton, linen, wool, or the more expensive silk.Though lately we've received clothings made out of polymers and waterproof fabrics. They can still be handled, but more troublesome than before. The elders in our family had no idea what kind of fabrics they are." Ulaan took out a thick jacket adorned with traditional patterns. "So we had to work overnight to test out methods for each material. We damaged plenty of expensive functional clothings during the process, it really hurts!"
"All our work are manual, and dont't involve machines, so we can't do our work in batch. Still, we can handle our workload from Jie Chun, I'd say it's a viable market for us."
Regarding the concept of time for Nälkän members & Their retirement and reinstatement
Ulaan: "People with a title of Karcist or above have a longer lifespan than everyone else, and so they have the ability to work for a few more decades. For example, my mother gave birth to me when she's seventy, though me and Shiu are currently in the normal age of a university student."
Ulaan: "Sometimes, the elders in our tribe will get exhausted, decide to retire for a few decades, then return to work for another few decades, the cycle lasts for quite a long time. Like a few elders who just came back from break were surprised I took up my family business. 'Oh? Aren't you going to Beijing to study? How come you're back so fast?' To them, perhaps I am still a child."
Ulaan: " Time is the biggest challenge for our tribe as we have no idea when we can still work and rest. Though I think I may be a few decades early to make this comment."
Interviewer: "Finally, would you like to give a few words to our dear readers?"
Ulaan: "Hm… Happy New Year! Have a red and joyeous holiday!"
Yuan Heng, 17th Feburary, 2020.