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RAW- SILK. 



degrees of fineness. The silk is then wound from 

 these bobbins upon a large reel, to separate and 

 distinguish the colours of each assortment, and is 

 taken off as soon as dry, to be twisted into skeins. 



FILATURE-WOUND SILK. 



The machine for reeling, introduced by Mr. Wiss 

 about the year 1770, appears to be the same as 

 the Piedmont reel, described in the treatise on the 

 silk manufacture in Dr. Lardner's Encyclopoedia, 

 page 183 ; except as to the portion of it alluded 

 to in Mr. Wiss's instructions on the double cross- 

 ing machine," with which the Piedmont reel is not 

 furnished. 



The Court directed the following plan of in- 

 structions for reeling silk, prepared by Mr. Wiss, 

 to be printed in September 1807, and copies to be 

 sent out to Bengal, with orders that the different 

 regulations should be carried into execution at their 

 filatures. 



(C.) 



Country, 

 wound and 



Filature- 

 wound Silk, 



No. 5. 



General Instructions for the fuy^ther improvement 

 of the Italian Raw- Silk Filature in Beiigal. 



Wiss's 1 . The Resident of the Factory must make it a 



Instructions . n i • • i 



for winding particular obiect ot his attention, to nave a great 



Raw-Silk. n , , . . u -i. 



quantity of water saved in reservoirs, where it 

 may settle and become perfectly fine, as such clear 



water 



