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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 men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, feeding the silkworms. Engraving.

Opuscules de Pierre Richer de Belleval : auxquels on a joint un traité d'Olivier de Serres, sur la manière de travailler l'écorce du mûrier blanc.

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Textiles: silk manufacture in China, gathering mulberry leaves. Engraving.

Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.

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

Opuscules de Pierre Richer de Belleval : auxquels on a joint un traité d'Olivier de Serres, sur la manière de travailler l'écorce du mûrier blanc.

Textiles: silk manufacture in China, feeding the silkworms. Engraving.