Noun: filature fi-lu-chu(r)
- A facility or establishment where silk is reeled from cocoons
"The traditional filature employed dozens of workers to process the silk"
- The process of reeling silk from cocoons
"The art of filature requires careful attention to temperature and humidity"
- A bobbin used in spinning silk into thread
"The silk workers carefully wound the delicate strands onto the filature"
Derived forms: filatures