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hours for 22 days, they begin to spin their cacoons, which takes two days. For this process they are placed on upright racks about three feet long and two feet wide made of loops of w icker.
Once the cacoons are formed, some of them are sorted and separated. Small sections of the ends of the cacoons are shaved off and the female worms are identified and saved to hatch and produce more moths and eggsSoften
In Water
Most of the cacoons are taken to a nearby factory where they are put into basins of hot water to soften them for the process of removing the thread. The factory is a large building where machines are arranged in two flanking rows tended by about 60 women located at regular stations. When the cacoons have been softened enough in warm water, the workers pick them up one at a time and throw them against a small spinning wheel. This catches the thread and leads it through a series of holes to a spinning reel almost a foot in diameter. Think of the w av a sewing machine is threaded and imagine putting the thread on a spool rather than spinning it off.
When the reels are filled, the workers transfer them to other machines where the thread is unreeled onto metal spools almost twice the si/e of the original reel.
The threads are removed from the larger reels,
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