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  • Two women are working at large looms. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, three looms in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Women and children are working at large cotton looms. Lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Two men working at looms with an overseer carrying a large stick watching over them. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • A finger marked with a "lost property" sign, as a warning of the danger of looms to textile workers. Gouache painting attributed to John Bonella Third, 1949.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • Two men are working at looms as a man with a large stick looks around the door to see if they are working. Engraving by William Hogarth after himself.
  • Flying kites over old Edo on a festival in early spring; a fire watchtower looms in the foreground and Fuji is visible in the distance. Woodcut by Gekko, early twentieth century.
  • People gathered around a candle-lit table; one man, held by another appears terrified, one person holds a glass, and a large figure looms in the background. Aquatint. by K. Hofer, 1899.
  • In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
  • A man looms over an old woman, telling her that it will not cost her anything if he has made her daughter pregnant, as she is on welfare support: the daughter lies dishevelled in the background. Colour photomechanical reproduction of lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1902.
  • A naked woman and a suited man reach towards a condom packet as a man dressed in a long black cloak and hat holding a cat looms up behind with the moon beyond; a safe sex and anti-AIDS advertisement by Infoshare International. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Two children making a sandcastle by the sea out of which looms a sinister looking man with a camera around his neck, a yellow hat who brandishes green dollar notes; a yellow-eyed hairy beast lurks behind him; with Sinhalese lettering; a warning about child sex tourism and AIDS prevention issued by Peace (Protecting Environment and children Everywhere). Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Indian weaver at his loom. Gouache drawing.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, two men tensioning a loom (top), one man tensioning a loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a loom. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: elevations and details of a power loom. Engraving.
  • Sarawak: a girl weaving cotton on a loom. Photograph.
  • Textiles: a loom, plan view. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a loom, side elevation. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: gauze making loom, and details. Engraving by R. Benard.
  • Textiles: a specialized loom for embroidery. Engraving by G. Gladwin.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, a weaver at his loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a mechanical Jacquard loom, three-quarter view with spectators. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a man sitting at a loom weaving stockings. Wood engraving.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, two women working at a loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, stretching the warp threads on a loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a mechanical carpet loom, three-quarter view, with spectators. Engraving, c.1862.
  • Textiles: a loom, elevation of the short side. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, parts of a loom. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.