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Hi Michael
>I am looking for information about reeling silk. I have a crop of about a
>hundred hungry silkworms who will soon (about 2 weeks now, I think) be
>spinning their golden orbs of silk... and most of the information I have been
>able to find about how to reel the silk off is very vague!
This is something that my colleagues and I in Soper Lane have been trying
to discover, but none of us has actually tried anything! Below is quoted
from our web site:
"The cocoons have to be harvested before they hatch, otherwise the emerging
moth will eat through the cocoon, chopping up the filaments.
The silk cocoons are plunged into hot water and lightly brushed until the
ends of the strands can be found; the resulting floating silk strands are
gathered together to form one thread which is passed through a reeling
machine. Each filament measures from 1500 to 3000 metres long. It was in
this form that the raw silk was imported into England "
This information comes from a variety of sources - like you, we've found
that much of the information seems vague. We've not yet had any success in
finding out what a reeling machine looked like either.
I'd be very interested in what you discover through trial and error - often
the best information I find!
Gina
Gina Barrett
Leicestershire, England
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