spools of silk threat that get launched back & forth between two large, wooden pin-ball hammers, as the silk cloth is woven together silk machine operators putting it all together. That assembly of strings looks like a spider web disaster to me,,, but it's what allows the patterns to be made,,, one row of strings at a time.
silk threat seperated out before being coiled up in the spools.
Silk shops right out front selling their wares produced in back.