Question

Reeling of silk is:
A. A process of making silk reels
B. Spinning of silk fibres
C. Weaving of silk cloth
D. The process of taking silk thread from cocoon

Answer 1

Reeling of silk is the last phase process in sericulture which is the overall process of extracting silk from silk cocoons. Reeling involves extracting product onto high speed rolling reels from raw extract of the material.

Complete step-by-step answer: Reeling of silk is a process involved in making silk threads from silk cocoons broadly known as sericulture. Reeling of silk is a process in which many cocoon baves are rolled together in order to obtain a single line of thread.
First of all, raw cocoons are cooked in a hot water bath. Then the filaments of this bundle of cooked cocoon is unwinded and the obtained thread is winded onto a fast rolling reel. This brief method is known as the reeling of silk.
Reeling of raw silk can be divided into two types. First is the direct reeling method in which filaments are reeled on a standard size reel. Second is the indirect reeling method in which filaments are reeled on small reels and then silk from these small reels is transferred into standard size reels via a re-reeling machine. This method is used in today’s modern silk reeling method.
This process is done via different types of machineries some of which are Sitting type reeling machine, Multi-end reeling machine and Automatic reeling machine.

So we can say option D is the correct answer.

Note: Before the silk cocoons are rolled on reels they are sorted by their color, shape, size and texture. After reeling the produced thread is very fine for commercial use so a number of threads are reeled together to produce desired diameter of silk thread.