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  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the silk threads. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven cutting machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, plan. Engraving.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: several Indian workers spinning, and working at a loom. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1797, after A.W. Devis.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk finishing, inside a factory. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.
  • 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 spinning wheel and a stocking machine. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 17--.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Silk-spinning organs of a spider
  • Textiles: carding and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a trammeling mechanism for threads. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: a loom used for ribbon weaving, side elevation. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-M. Lucotte.
  • Textiles: details of equipment used for silk weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A young Irish woman working at a spinning wheel. Engraving by Francis Holl after F.W. Topham.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Textiles: a stretching machine [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. D. Herbert.
  • Textiles: details of equipment used for spinning silk threads. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a silk-spinning frame. Engraving.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. 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, three looms in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: details of the equipment used for spinning silk threads. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
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