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edge of your bafon; afterwards you twift the two ends 
(which confift of four cocons each) twenty or twenty-five 
times, that the four ends in each thread may the better join 
together in crofling one another, and that yo ur filk may be 
plump, which otherwife would be flat. 
Your windfter muft always have a bow] of cold water 
by her, to dip her fingers in, and to fprinkle very often 
the faid bar, that the heat may not burn the thread. 
Your threads, when thus twifted, go upon two iron 
hooks called rampins, which are placed higher, and from 
thence they go upon the reel. Now at one end of the 
axis of the reel is a cog-wheel, which catching in the teeth 
of the poft-rampin, moves it from the right to the left, 
and confequently the thread that is upon it; fo that your 
filk is wound on the reel crofs-ways, and your threads 
form two hanks of about four fingers broad. 
As often as the cocons you wind are done, or break or 
diminifh only, you muft join frefh ones to keep up the 
number requifite, or the proportion ; | fay the proportion, 
becaufe as the cocons wind off, the thread being finer, 
you muft join two cocons half wound to replace a new 
one: Thus you may wind three new ones and two half 
wound, and your filk is from four to five cocons. 
When you would join’a freth thread, you muft lay one 
end on your finger, which you throw lightly on the other 
threads that are winding, and it joins them immediately, 
and continues to go up with the reft. You muft not wind 
off your cocons too bare or to the laft, becaufe when they 
are near at an end, the bairré, as we call it, that is the 
hufk, joins in with the other threads and makes the filk 
foul and gouty. 
When you have finifhed your firft parcel, you muft 
clean your bafons, taking out all the {triped worms, as well 
as the cocons, on which there is a little filk; which you 
firft open and take out the worm and then throw them in= 
to a bafket by you, into which you likewife caft the loofe 
filk that comes off in making the battiie. You 
