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  • Textiles: lace making, men weaving (top), and the loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a small loom for child apprentice weavers to learn on. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: lace making, details of equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, winding threads. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver sewing different coloured threads at the back of the work. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: silk weaving (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, pressing and working at a frame (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
  • Textiles: a three-quarter view of a power loom, with admiring visitors either side. Engraving, c.1862.
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • 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.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: lace making, a weaver on a swing at the work (above), detail of lace (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, details of the equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, two vats (top), a wringer and other tools (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a loom, plan view. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, stretching the warp threads on a loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a mechanical Jacquard loom, front and rear elevations. Engraving by Pegard after L. Guiguet.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Textiles: a spring pen-holder and parallel rule (above), a rack for stretching woollen fabric (below). Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, spinning machine and details. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving attributed to B. Cole, 1749.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a vat and other utensils for indigo. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: lace making, a loom (top), and the pattern (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: Crompton's belt-driven power loom, with a man standing by and a woman working. Watercolour.