Reeling & Re-Reeling Techniques    

Silk Reeling is simply the unwinding of filaments from a group of cocoons in hot water bath on to a reel.

There are two methods of reeling a) Direct Reeling method on standard reels and b) Indirect method which includes preliminary reeling on small sized reels and transferring the reeled silk directly from the reels to standard sized reels on re-reeling machines. Before reeling, cocoons have to pass various stages and production of quality silk depends upon various factors:

Purchase of Cocoons :
Selection of cocoons must be done carefully as any carelessness in this respect would spell serious losses to the reeling enterprise. Selective purchase of cocoons in an open market is extremely difficult, and becomes imperfect particularly in the absence of determined standards of quality for cocoons, and standard methods of testing for classifying cocoons into quality grades.