"Returning from silk filature, just outside St. John's University, Shanghai" Men, women, and children, some carrying baskets, are walking down a road outside the university campus. The silk cocoons raised by farmers were delivered to a factory, called a filature, where the silk was unwound from the cocoons and the strands collected into skeins.
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