TEXTILE WORKS

The silken thread becomes textile in the textile works, after having been subjected to a series of procedures:

During caning, the silk is wrapped around the nipples and is collected in reels. A rereeling follows, a procedure during which the thread, passing through a thin cleft, is cleaned from knots and bulges and is spun in reels again.

The thread has now reached the next stage which is also the pairing and the spinning. Through pairing, two or more threads are united, spun and so a very resistant thread is created. The latter is collected in pulleys and is ready for use in the weaving of silken items.

Warping constitutes the most important procedure before weaving and means the arrangement of the thread located in pulleys, in order to represent the warp of any textile.

Healding is the passing of the warp on to the heals and later on to the comb, in order to be fastened thereupon at the front of the loom, around which the ready-made clout is wrapped.

Weaving is the procedure with which the thread is intertwined into fabric. For all kinds of fabric there is a type of loom, the horizontal or sitting one, as it is called. Looms can be wooden, manual-operated (handlooms), in home handicraft, or automatic electrically driven in small industries and manufacture.

The weaving mill of Tsiakiris Silk Industry is the oldest unit of the factory. Next to the first weaving machines, there have been installed more contemporary and cybernated ones, mainly of Italian origin and greater productivity.