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  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • Textiles: silk-spinning equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry after Farey.
  • Textiles: silk weaving, layout of the loom chains. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: details of the equipment used for spinning silk threads. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk weaving (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, a weaver at his loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: an extremely large detail of the weft and warp threads in silk satin. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk weaving, equipment using spinning wheel. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, stretching the warp threads on a loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving attributed to B. Cole, 1749.
  • Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: end elevation of a loom used for making taffeta, satin and serge. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk weaving, the equipment of M. Vauconson. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: an array of water-powered equipment used for silk spinning, perspective (top), and plan (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a silk weaving loom and a frame for silkworms. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: a type of Jacquard card for silk weaving. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, two women working at a loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.
  • Textiles: silk dyeing, a drying-rack above a stove with a man swaying the rack (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: silk dyeing, several vats and barrels (top), a large lead [?] tank (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • 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.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.
  • Textiles: loom for specialist silk weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: silk weaving silk weaving equipment, plan and elevation of an oval loom. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a loom for silk weaving, in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.