The original silk reeling method is to soak the cocoons in a hot pot of soup, draw the silk by hand, wind it on the silk basket, and become the raw material for weaving silk. Basins and baskets are the original silk reeling equipment. One silkworm cocoon can draw out about 1,000 meters of cocoon silk, and several cocoon silks are combined into raw silk.
Silk reeling is a major step in the silk-making process. According to product specifications, several boiled cocoon silks are dissociated and combined into raw silk or tussah silk. There are many methods of silk reeling. According to the difference of the ups and downs of cocoons during silk reeling, they can be divided into three types: floating reeling, semi-submerged reeling, and sinking reeling. According to the different types of reeling machinery, it can be divided into two types: vertical reeling and automatic reeling. According to the different perception types of the automatic silk reeling machine, it can be divided into two types: fixed-grain perception reeling and fixed-fibre perception reeling. The process of extracting cocoons from silk is generally referred to as silk reeling.
