RAW- SILK. 



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should join with the twenty-two-teeth one, which (C.) 

 is fixed to the silk-reel. ^ T""Xn. 



Instructions 



15. I have no doubt but what has been so often for winding 



Raw-Silk. 



recommended, to have two overseers for the length 

 of a filature of forty furnaces, has been complied 

 with. These overseers are to watch the spinners^ 

 that they keep to the quality of the silk directed 

 to be spun. It is their duty to take care 



1st. That the silk be made of the exact • 

 number of cocoons prescribed. 



2d. That the spinners make a sufficient 

 number of crosses. 



3d. That they let nothing ascend on the 

 reel that is not crossed. 



4th. That there never be too many cocoons 

 at any one time in the pan, lest the threads 

 should become entangled. 



5th. That the cocoons be sufficiently cleared 

 of the fuzzy part, in order to obtain a clear 

 silk. 



6th. In short, it is their duty to take care 

 that the reelers be kept strictly to their several 

 tasks before-mentioned, and to see that no 

 man remains idle ; for if the spinners lose their 

 time, two great evils must ensue, viz. the 

 cocoons in the pan will be wasted, and the 

 overseers will be imposed upon in the quality 

 of the silk ; for the idle spinner avails him- 

 self of every moment that the overseer is 

 absent, and spins coarse, lest it should be 



discovered 



