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  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a small loom for child apprentice weavers to learn on. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, pressing and working at a frame (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: an extremely large detail of the weft and warp threads in silk satin. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, details of the equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, two vats (top), a wringer and other tools (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a loom, plan view. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving attributed to B. Cole, 1749.
  • Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: an array of water-powered equipment used for silk spinning, perspective (top), and plan (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: equipment for spinning silk. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a lathe used in comb manufacture. Engraving, 1808, by H. Mutlow.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a loom, side elevation. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: equipment used in silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a man sitting at a loom weaving stockings. Wood engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic scutching machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: weaving. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk weaving, and a sample of the floral pattern. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of threads. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: details of equipment used for spinning silk threads. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a silk-spinning frame. Engraving.
  • Textiles: weaving and finishing fringes (top), the loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, parts of a loom (top), details of the tensioning mechanism (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Machinery used in the making of combs, and details of its components. Engraving by E. Turrell after J. Farey.
  • Textiles: details of the equipment used for spinning silk threads. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: items of apparatus in horizontal and vertical section. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.