Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
22 results
  • Silkworms: thirteen figures showing silkworms at various stages of development, from egg and caterpillar, to pupa and moth. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, feeding the silkworms. Engraving.
  • Textiles: laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving attributed to B. Cole, 1749.
  • Textiles: a silk weaving loom and a frame for silkworms. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV) or Cypovirus, is from the Rheoviridae family. It has a double stranded RNA genome and a very stable capsid. It infects insects, including silkworms, and can have an economic impact on the silk industry.
  • Silkworm disease called flachery, Pasteur.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Silkworm Eggs' pox
  • A silkworm (Phaloena mori) shown as imago, larva, pupa and egg. Etching by M. Griffith.
  • Textiles: women in a garden sorting silkworm eggs for incubation. Engraving by B. Cole, 1749.
  • Études sur la maladie des vers à soie : moyen pratique assuré de la combattre et d'en prévenir le retour / par L. Pasteur.
  • Études sur la maladie des vers à soie : moyen pratique assuré de la combattre et d'en prévenir le retour / par L. Pasteur.
  • Études sur la maladie des vers à soie : moyen pratique assuré de la combattre et d'en prévenir le retour / par L. Pasteur.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the eggs. Engraving.
  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.
  • Court ladies producing silk under the supervision of the empress; their tasks include preparing eggs, chopping mulberry leaves, feeding caterpillars and unwinding cocoons. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki II, 1883.
  • Three scenes relating to hydrotherapy and one concerning the production of silk. Pen drawing by J. Gülick.
  • Silk fibres
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: The Yellow Emperor
  • Chinese materia medica (Ming), .Contents page