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Silkworms

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  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.
  • Three scenes relating to hydrotherapy and one concerning the production of silk. Pen drawing by J. Gülick.
  • Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.
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    Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering the empty silk cocoons. Engraving.

    | Reference: 44099i
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    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
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    Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.

    | Reference: 44097i
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    Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.

    | Date: 1753 | Reference: 43587i
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    L'art de faire éclorre et d'élever les vers a soie, : tel qu'on le pratique dans le Levant.

    | Date: M. DCC. LXXXVI. [1786]
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