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Question
Reeling of silk is
Options
a process of making silk reels.
the spinning of silk fibres.
the weaving of silk cloth
the process of taking silk threads from the cocoon.
Solution
the process of taking silk threads from the cocoon.
Explanation:
The process of unwinding the silk filaments from the cocoon and combining them together to make a thread of raw silk is called reeling. For commercial purposes, 3-10 fine filaments are reeled together at a time to produce desired diameters of raw silk or reeled silk. The final viable length of reeled filament is 300-600 m.
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