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are being simultaneously reeled into a single thread by tbe 
reel at her back which draws off over her head the coccoon 
threads, they dancing and turning in the water. When a 
thread breaks, or the coccoon is reeled, another is quickly 
presented from the lot in the other hand, the manipulation 
beiug one of great dexterity." At Channapatna the coc- 
coons are in like manner, boiled in a pan, from which the 
threads are transferred directly to the reeling apparatus, and 
no rotating brush is employed. 
The reeling apparatus, which is of very rude construction 
as compared with the machinery used in France and Italy, 
is thus described by Mr. H. E. Sullivan ' as the result of 
a visit to Kingheri near Bangalore. " The native reeling 
apparatus consists of a small axis working in bearings on 
two uprights, the motion being commnnicated from the 
hand by a winch-handle. Radiating from the axis at each 
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^ Silk in India. J. GJ-eoa'hegan, Calcutta 1872 p. 9f). 
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