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TWISTING SILK STRANDS


From the boiled cocoons, three strands are twisted and wound together on large wooden wheels. The wheel can be seen inside the center of the wooden frame below.

In the next step, the man in the picture below ran back and forth from one end to the other of a long room, looping the three silk threads onto wooden pegs at opposite ends of the room. Twenty-five of these strands made from three single fibers are twisted together from a wooden machine. This results in a single strand made up of 75 fibers, which is used for weaving. The resulting strength is amazing.

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