Technical installations complex Gura Râului Sibiu
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pives from Gura River, Sadu, Oral, Tălmăcel and other villages in Sibiu developed and perfected much using the raw material purchased from the transhumant shepherd. The large-scale development of the bargain with fabrics and other textiles has led to the multiplication of the number of wool processing, these being like a real "sausage" in several villages in the area. The influence of the German population that has contributed to the developed of the textile industry is also felt.
The Gura River Complex in the National Museum of the Village includes the thickens, a thickening basket, a hair and pirate drawing basket, each in a separate construction.
The tronconic form in which the water falls, turns, whites and thickens the woolen cervils.
The thickening basket is a cylinder made from a wisdom, fixed on the axis of the hydraulic wheel. The wet waxes, inserted inside, are spinned by the wheel movement and, due to the hot steam, thickens, becoming fluffier.
The hair draw, built between 1876-1900, is also of cylindrical shape consisting of mobile bars on which the fabrics are placed. This cylinder is rotated being actuated by the wheel, through its spindle. In the rotation movement, the fabrics pass in front of a plank with strings of nails, which pull threads from them and get rid of them, making them fluffy.
Pua dates from the second half of the 19th century, it is provided with eight hammers that have the bottom with "sponges" (notches) on the scale and alternatively falls by succeeding the waves of fabrics placed in the cavities dug in the oak trunk. The wheel provided with a spindle with wooden elevators, operated in the rotation movement by falling water, engages the tails of the shirts or hammers and lifts them up. Getting out of the gear, the hammers fall alternatively on the pieces of fabrics, which automatically rotate in the alveoli carved in the wooden trunk, where they are watered with cold and hot water. The operation lasts from 8 hours to 14 consecutive, the respective fabric is thickened and becomes a post (dim), from which the clothes are made for winter.
