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  • Textiles: several Indian workers spinning, and working at a loom. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1797, after A.W. Devis.
  • Gold workshop: interior view, spinning wheel with various components used in the making of gold thread. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A Chinese entertainer spinning hats in the air with the assistance of a girl. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • The spinning mill where David Livingstone worked as a child, seen from some distance; horse and ploughman in the foreground. Etching.
  • A woman spinning wool directly of a sheep lying on the ground while another woman milks a cow in the background. Etching.
  • Textiles: two women, in ancient (Middle Eastern?) costume, spinning cotton with distaffs under their arms. Photolithograph after a drawing by F. M. P.
  • A group of people gathered around an old lady sitting by a spinning wheel holding a spool of yarn. Lithograph by Gustave Janet.
  • Textiles: an array of water-powered equipment used for silk spinning, perspective (top), and plan (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A girl sits spinning by the fire, opposite her sits a woman with her head in her hands. Engraving by Erh. Pickel after B. Vautier.
  • An old woman sits spinning by candelelight as a boy and a cat warm themselves by the fire. Engraving by J. Parker after R. Corbould.
  • A woman sits working at a spinning wheel as a man works at the table making a violin. Wood engraving by C & H after H. Herkomer.
  • A woman sits working at a spinning wheel as a man works at the table making a violin. Wood engraving by C & H after H. Herkomer.
  • A vendor of spectacles showing his wares to a woman at her spinning wheel, while her family look on. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.
  • A vendor of spectacles showing his wares to a woman at her spinning wheel, while her family look on. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.
  • 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.
  • Ge Guoluo (Ge Lolo) family carrying loads. The woman holds a spindle in her hand to indicate that the tribe uses the fibres of the ge plant for spinning, from .
  • A woman is sitting by the window making lace on a pillow while another woman sits by a spinning wheel watching a kitten play with a reel of cotton; a man holds a swift or skein winder. Engraving by W. French after F.J. Luckx.
  • A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541.
  • Kirikoraha ceremony. The shaman about to spin the pot (henebedda).
  • The Virgin looks up at the announcing angel; cherubs spin in a circle around the Holy Spirit. Engraving after J. Callot (?).
  • Three women sit and spin wool and cotton as another stirs a pot on the fire and a child warms his hands. Stipple engraving.
  • 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.
  • Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Spider spinneret (Unknown sp.)
  • Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: weaving of cotton (top), the side elevation of a loom (below). Engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 17--.