Search | Wellcome Collection

Formats

Pictures (63)
Books (4)

Dates

Fromto

Locations

Closed stores (66)
Online (66)

Subjects

Types/Techniques

Contributors

Languages

French (38)
English (28)
Japanese (1)

Submit

Active filters:

Silk Reset filters

67 results

Sort by:
Sort order:

Pictures
Online
Textiles: an extremely large detail of the weft and warp threads in silk satin. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43660i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk finishing, inside a factory. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43692i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: details of the equipment used for spinning silk threads. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43656i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: end elevation of a loom used for making taffeta, satin and serge. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43658i
Books
Online
A treatise on the origin, progressive improvement, and present state of the silk manufacture / [Anon].
Porter, George Richardson, 1792-1852.Date: 1831
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk-spinning equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry after Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Reference: 43593i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: two women preparing for silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43662i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.
Reference: 44099i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk manufacture in China, spinning the threads. Engraving.
Reference: 44101i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43655i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: an array of water-powered equipment used for silk spinning, perspective (top), and plan (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43702i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: a specialized loom for embroidery. Engraving by G. Gladwin.
Reference: 44000i
Books
Online
Handbook of the collection illustrative of the wild silks of India : in the Indian section of the South Kensington Museum, with a catalogue of the collection and numerous illustrations / by Thomas Wardle.
Wardle, Thomas, Sir, 1831-1909.Date: 1881
Pictures
Online
Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43681i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 44070i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: equipment used for silk weaving, and a sample of the floral pattern. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43686i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: equipment used in silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43652i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk weaving, the equipment of M. Vauconson. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43595i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.
Reference: 44097i
Pictures
Online
Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28954i
Books
Online
Correspondence relating to cultivation of silk / presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command.
Date: 1870
Pictures
Online
Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
Date: 1753Reference: 43587i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: water-powered equipment used for silk spinning. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43690i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: a loom for silk weaving, in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43684i
Pictures
Online
Textiles: silk weaving, the equipment used. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43597i