Filature Silk Yarn

The raw silk is unwound from cocoons and are collected into skeins in the factories known as Filature. Here the cocoons are sorted based on their color, size, shape and texture. Then they are immersed in hot and cold water to soften the sericin so that filament could be unwound into one continuous thread. The whole of the seracin is not removed at this stage as it protects the delicate filament in further operations. 'Reeling' is the process of unwinding the filament from the cocoon. Three to ten filaments are together reeled for producing the desired diameter of raw silk thread