One of the worst places to work was a silk factory, or filature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Empress] Reference

This contrivance takes the place of the agate of the ordinary filature, and is made up, essentially, of the following parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference

We have described the processes by which cocoons are ordinarily cooked and brushed, these being the first processes of the filature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Empress] Reference

Each filature endeavors as far as possible to collect, stifle, and dry the cocoons in its own neighborhood; but dried cocoons, nevertheless, give rise to an important commerce, having its center at Marseilles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference

The actual work of supplying the cocoons to the running thread is performed as follows: The cleaned cocoons are put into what is called the feeding basin, B1 (Fig. 1), a receptacle placed alongside of the ordinary reeling basin, B, of a filature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference

Shall we begin then our journey through the filature?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

But the percentage in a modernly equipped filature is very small.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

The Ashgabat filature was put into operation February 12 after its reconstruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Новости] Reference

Built in 1928, the Ashgabat filature is the oldest enterprise of Turkmenistan's textile industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Новости] Reference

"I came into this filature when quite young, and it has taken me years to find out even the little I know now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

The expense of the culture was large this year, owing to the erection of the filature, &c., which swelled the sum to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Here in Pont-de-Saint-Michel almost every one is employed in the Gaspard filature, or in the throwing mills; and if not, the people raise silkworms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

The cocoons delivered at the filature in 1760, weighed seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-three pounds, and there were spun eight hundred and thirty-nine pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Each basin at the filature had two apprentices, besides others who were employed in sorting the balls, &c., and the various operations connected with the trade, employed nearly forty persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

The good effects of the filature were now happily evident in the increased interest of the planters in the subject, who sent both their daughters and young negroes to acquire the art of reeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Before the silk was reeled off the cocoons would, of course, go through another and more thorough classification under the hands of the experts at the filature, as the reeling factory was called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

Soon I am to go into the filature to help with the reeling; and after that they have promised to send me on into the throwing mills, where the filament is twisted into thread preparatory to weaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

Accordingly Pierre's box of lunch was stowed away in Henri's locker, and speeding across the little bridge that connected the filature with the throwing mills, the two boys entered the great factories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Silk] Reference

But this branch of industry and commerce was fast waning before the increasing culture of more sure and lucrative products, and only one hundred and thirty-seven different persons brought cocoons to the filature this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Bengal method, which used to sell for less than six rupees, or thirteen shillings, for two pounds 'weight, arose to nine rupees, or near twenty shillings, and the filature silk was very soon after contracted for at fourteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)] Reference

In 1762, fifteen thousand one hundred and one pounds of cocoons were delivered at the filature, and one thousand and forty-eight pounds of raw silk reeled, which Mr.O. declared to be the finest and best silk ever produced in Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

In 1752, Mr. Robinson returned to England, and his place was partially supplied by Joseph Ottolenghe, a native of Piedmont, and a proficient in his art, who came to Georgia on the 18th of July, 1751, and took charge of the filature in April, 1753.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

The principal purpose, however, was for a nursery of white mulberry trees for the raising of silk worms; and from which the people could be supplied with young trees, that all the families might be more or less engaged in this reference to the filature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Mr. Camuse, son, and daughter, who, it appears, gave the commissioners no little trouble by their perverse conduct, returned to Savannah and were engaged to labor at the filature, at three shillings per day, at which Mr. Habersham exclaims, “monstrous wages!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

The public duties of Mr. Habersham prevented his constant attention to this business; but the whole time of Mr. Robinson was devoted to the filature, directing the sorters, aiding the novices, advising the reelers, and in every way exerting himself to obtain success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Seven thousand and forty pounds of cocoons were deposited in the filature in 1758, but while the friends of this business were rejoicing in the assured success of their experiment they were saddened by the destruction of the filature, which took fire on the 4th of July, and was totally consumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

His course gave offence to the Ebenezer people, who had already erected a filature in their village; who had been at great sacrifice to send their wives and daughters to learn the art of reeling in Savannah, and who had hoped to carry on the manufacture under their own supervision and for their own benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Company purchasing the raw cocoon or silk-pod at a fixed rate, the first producer, who, whilst he could wind at his own house, employed his family in this labor, and could procure a reasonable livelihood by buying up the cocoons for the Italian filature, now incurred the enormous and ruinous loss of fifty per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)] Reference

There were delivered at the filature, in 1764, fifteen thousand two hundred and twelve pounds of cocoons, notwithstanding the season was so unfavorable, that Governor Wright mentions the case of one man who expected to make from five to seven hundred pounds, who only succeeded in raising one hundred pounds of cocoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

Experiments were made at the filature to ascertain the relative quantity of each of these qualities, in a given weight of cocoons, and the results were, that in fifty pounds of green cocoons, there were twenty-seven pounds of the first sort, ten pounds four ounces of the second, and twelve pounds twelve ounces of the third.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

On the 26th of June, Henry Kennan made proposals to the Board of Trade, for carrying on the filature; but they were of a nature not at all advantageous to the culture, and Governor Wright, in his reply, on the 21st of October, disapproved of the plan, and exposed the fallacy of his scheme, which was in consequence abandoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]

1756, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-three pounds and one ounce of cocoons were received at the filature, and two hundred and sixty-eight pounds of raw silk reeled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe]