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twine made of the refufe filk, make a tie 

 juft on that place where it bore up- 

 on the bars of the reel : then flide it off 

 the reel, and make another tie on the part 

 oppofite to that where you made the firiV j 

 after which you muft double it, and tie it 

 round near each extremity, and then it 

 may be laid up for ufe or fale. rx^ 



As to the flofs filk which was on the 

 outfide of the pods, it is fometimes carded 

 and fpun on the wheel ; as is alfo the inner 

 bags of the filk pods, thefe being firfl 

 foftened in boiling water. And fometimes 

 the flofs is reel'd without twilling, being 

 drawn out by the finger into a coarfe kind 

 of thread, ferving for the woof of ordina- 

 ry filks ', but this and the further manage- 

 ment of filk, with the various manners in 

 which it is thrown, and prepared to be 

 woven, do not come within the fcope of 

 this Treatife. 



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