Or tHe SILK-WORM. 36% 
€uap. IV. Of the Filature, or Winding from the Worm. 
Although the frefh cocons, that is to fay, thofe that 
have not been baked in the oven, yield a brighter filk than 
thofe that have, and at the fame time yield better weight, 
by reafon of part of their gum which they have not loft 
by the fire, yet moft people prefer thofe that are baked, in 
order to have a filk more even in its colour; unlefs you 
could have a confiderable quantity of frefh cocons, and 
time to wind them fo; for otherwife it is undeniable, that 
the frefh would be much more advantageous, as well for 
the reafon above mentioned as becaufe they are eafier to 
wind, not having been dried by the fire. 
Before you begin to wind, you muft prepare your co-= 
cons as follows. 
1. In ftripping them of that wafte filk that furrounds 
them, and which ferved to faften them to thetwigs. This 
burr is proper to ftuff quilts, or other fuch ufes; you may 
likewife {pin it to make ftockings, but they will be coarfe’ 
and ordinary. 
2. You muft fort your cocons, feparating them into 
different claffes in order to wind them apart. Thefe claf- 
fes are, 
The good white cocons. 
The good cocons of all the other colours. 
‘The dupions. 
The cocalons, among which are included the 
weak cocons. 
The good choquette ; and, laftly, 
The bad choquette. 
In forting the cocons, you will always find fome per= 
forated cocons amongft them, whofe worm is already 
born; thofe you muft fet apart for fleuret. As I have de- 
fcribed above, you will likewife find fome foufflons, but 
very few; for which reafon you may put them among 
the bad choquette, and they run up into wafte. 
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