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  • Textiles: carding and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Tree cotton (Gossypium arboreum): flowering and fruiting stem with caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after M. Merian.
  • A cotton factory in which a man is feeding raw cotton into a willowing machine. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Textiles: weaving. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • A Jain cotton manufacture couple. Gouache drawing.
  • "Asepta" absorbent cotton for surgical, medical and hygienic uses. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1928.
  • Sarawak: a girl weaving cotton on a loom. Photograph.
  • Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • 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.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a large fabric printing machine, section. Engraving.
  • Textiles: items of apparatus in horizontal and vertical section. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.
  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel, a stove, and two insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • Textiles: sorting and spinning of cotton. Engraving.