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Women textile workers

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    "Las hilanderas" (women weaving and spinning in a tapestry workshop): Arachne competing with the goddess Athena in a weaving competition. Etching by J.M. Galván y Candela, 1875, after D. Velázquez.

    Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660. | Date: [1875] | Reference: 2498609i
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    A young poor Irish woman, sadly mending fishing nets or textiles outside a stone cottage, is approached by a young man; inside the cottage, a woman is spinning. Engraving after F.W. Topham.

    Topham, Francis William, 1808-1877. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 3140108i
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    China during the Cultural Revolution: women engineers discuss improvements to textile manufacturing machines. Colour lithograph after Luo Fengxian, 1975.

    Luo, Fengxian. | Date: September 1975 | Reference: 660903i
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    China during the Cultural Revolution: women workers take pleasure in contemplating the multicolour fabrics produced in a successful cotton mill, and delight especially in a bolt of red cloth. Colour lithograph after Zhao Youhua, 1975.

    Zhao, Youhua. | Date: July 1975 | Reference: 660902i
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