• n. From the French "filature" and the Latin "fīlātūra" "fīlāre". It is the place, the factory or the establishment for reeling silk.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300004894 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]

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