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(a) The rough silk broken off in the winding of the cocoons. (b) This rough silk carded like cotton or wool and used chiefly in the manufacture of…
the fibres which remain after the reeling of silk yarn, or those obtained from damaged cocoons.
The waste or scrap silk resulting from the process of making silk skeins.