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Carpets

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Images from the collections

Images about Carpets

22 images from works
  • Textiles: a loom for carpet weaving, cutting with scissors (top), combing the warp threads (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a spinning wheel (top), making the design (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.
  • Textiles: detail of a loom for tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • The Governors of the Hospital for Poor Children, Haarlem. Photogravure after J. de Bray, 1663.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • Textiles: a loom with disembodied hands weaving, the design pinned to the top beam. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: two patterns for embroidery (top), a woman winding thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: types of mechanical carpet loom. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Duncan.
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Works from the collections

28 works

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    A woman posing naked, with her head down and arms raised supporting a load on her head.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 531384i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    A Sicilian boy, posing naked outdoors, by a doorway. Photograph, ca.1900, by G. Plüschow.

    Plüschow, Wilhelm von, Baron, active 1880-1900. | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 3358129i.9
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    Textiles: a loom with disembodied hands weaving, the design pinned to the top beam. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

    Radel, active 1751-1767. | Reference: 43825i
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    Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

    Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894. | Date: [1878] | Reference: 25224i
    Part of: Carl Werner's Nile-sketches, painted from nature during his travels through Egypt. Facsimiles of water-color-paintings executed by Gustav W. Seitz, with accompanying text by Dr A. E. Brehm and Dr Johannes Dümichen
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    Textiles: a man looping cord around three dowels (top), details of the dowels and chain (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

    Radel, active 1751-1767. | Reference: 43822i
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Textiles
Weaving
Machinery
Smoking paraphernalia
Smoking Pipes
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Opium

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