Definitionn. a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread
Last update: October 19, 2015
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Onward till the period of the War of Independence bounties and other rewards for the rearing of worms and silk filature continued to be offered; and just when the war broke out Benjamin Franklin and others were engaged in nursing a filature into healthy life at Philadelphia. [Please select]
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Shall we begin then our journey through the filature. [Please select]
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But the percentage in a modernly equipped filature is very small. [Please select]
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Before the silk was reeled off the cocoons would, of course, go through another and more thorough classification under the hands of the experts at the filature, as the reeling factory was called. [Please select]
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"I came into this filature when quite young, and it has taken me years to find out even the little I know now." [Please select]
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