Usage examples (33)

• One of the worst places to work was a silk factory, or filature.
• This contrivance takes the place of the agate of the ordinary filature, and is made up, essentially, of the following parts:
• We have described the processes by which cocoons are ordinarily cooked and brushed, these being the first processes of the filature.
• In one appalling calamity, a hundred women died in a fire that engulfed a silk filature because the owner had locked them in from the outside.