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  • Textiles: a industrial washing machine for fabrics. Engraving by J. Petitcolin after J.E. Armengaud.
  • Textiles: a large fabric printing machine, section. Engraving.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1813.
  • Textiles: three fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1815.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: a fabric sample mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1812.
  • Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
  • Textiles: three patent diagrams of apparatus for treating fabric. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1856.
  • Textiles: a spring pen-holder and parallel rule (above), a rack for stretching woollen fabric (below). Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: lace making, fabricating horse-hair brushes (top), and details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Machinery: card wire maker. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: three stages in the production of woollen cloth, cutting the nap (top), washing [or sizeing ?] (centre), and pressing (bottom). Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: end elevation of a loom used for making taffeta, satin and serge. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A tailor holding out a folding swatch of cloth samples. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Textiles: gauze making loom, and details. Engraving by R. Benard.
  • Textiles: a loom. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Two women are working at large looms. Coloured lithograph.
  • Textiles: two spinning wheels, for wool (top) and silk (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Bleaching: vats, glassware, and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after himself, 1799.
  • Bleaching: racks and cauldrons for drying bleached cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk-spinning equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry after Farey.
  • Textiles: details of a loom used for ribbon weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-M. Lucotte.