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  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.
  • A girl sits spinning by the fire, opposite her sits a woman with her head in her hands. Engraving by Erh. Pickel after B. Vautier.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Spider spinneret (Unknown sp.)
  • An old woman sits spinning by candelelight as a boy and a cat warm themselves by the fire. Engraving by J. Parker after R. Corbould.
  • Textiles: silk-spinning equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry after Farey.
  • 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: two women, in ancient (Middle Eastern?) costume, spinning cotton with distaffs under their arms. Photolithograph after a drawing by F. M. P.
  • Textiles: a spinning wheel (top), making the design (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, side elevation. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • Cotton fibres
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • Textiles: a spinning jenny. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • A young man (Colas) attaches his bouquet to the spindle used by Rose, as Rose reveals herself from her hiding place. Engraving by J.B.B.Simonet after P.A. Baudouin.
  • 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: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
  • Textiles: a spinning machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. D. Herbert.
  • Textiles: weaving of cotton (top), the side elevation of a loom (below). Engraving.
  • Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: parts of a loom used for ribbon weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Lucotte.
  • Textiles: five scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.