Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Silk skeins soaking in a solution of boiled water. This is done to free the silk of gum.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After the skeins have soaked in the solution, they are removed and placed in the whizzer, where they are contrifugally dried.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After the drying process, the skeins are removed from the whizzer and hung up on racks to dry.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. After drying, the skeins are taken from the rack and each skein is put on a swift of the winding machine. This machine winds the yarn from the skein on to bobbins.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Silk skeins on winding creels or swifts. The yarn is wound from the skein on to bobbins.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Packages of silk being untied, preparatory to soaking the skeins.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Rayon skeins are re-wrapped in cloth after being taken from solution, preparatory to being placed in whizzer to extract water.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Redrawing: This operation is performed on the winding machine. In making the warp, thread is wound off the bobbins (the bobbins seen in the picture). The practice is to take bobbins from the creel with some yarn left on them. This leaves bobbins partially filled for

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Creel showing bobbins with rayon. The operator is shown tying the thread of a full bobbin to the thread of a partially exhausted bobbin, which will be replaced by the former.