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  • Bleaching: racks and cauldrons for drying bleached cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • A shearman removing the nap from rough woven cloth, watched by another man from a window. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a loom in elevation (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a mechanical Jacquard loom, three-quarter view with spectators. Engraving.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: lace making, threads stretched across a frame. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Textiles: three patent diagrams of apparatus for treating fabric. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1856.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a furnace (top), fuel wood on a barrow or handcart (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a loom for carpet weaving, cutting with scissors (top), combing the warp threads (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • Textiles: lace making, details of equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Upholstery: two stages in padding an armchair. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • 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: tapestry weaving, a weaver pushing down the threads. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, lying on her front on a piece of fabric, a goblet and jug beside her. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • Machinery: card wire maker. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.
  • Textiles: details of a loom used for ribbon weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-M. Lucotte.
  • 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: tapestry weaving, parts of a loom. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a spinning wheel (top), making the design (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver passing different threads through the weave. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.