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  • Textiles: a belt-driven loom. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule inside an iron-framed spinning shed, workers setting machines and clearing cotton waste, etc. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • A young woman is using a spinning wheel under a tree with a spindle and shuttle. Engraving by Saunders after Woolley.
  • Silk fibres
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel, a stove, and two insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A young woman sits on a mountain side with a cow and a basket on the ground, spinnning yarn. Engraving by P. Laurent after Karel du Jardin.
  • Hercules and Omphale. Engraving by B.W. Dolendo after B. Spranger.
  • Textiles: two spinning wheels, for wool (top) and silk (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: two women preparing for silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, spinning the threads. Engraving.
  • Textiles: sorting and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.