Reeling of Silk

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The pile of cocoons is used for obtaining silk fibres.

The cocoons are kept under the sun or boiled or exposed to steam so that the silk fibre separates out .

The process of taking out threads from cocoons for use as silk is called Reeling of silk .

Reeling is done in special machines to unwind the threads or fibres of silk from the cocoons.

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