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  • Textiles: ribbon making, heating the ribbons on drums (top), details of equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, a worker on a swing at the work (above), details of lace (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Sarawak: a girl weaving cotton on a loom. Photograph.
  • Textiles: a loom, with a weaver seated on the bench. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a loom for ribbon-weaving, with a weaver working. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
  • Two men working at looms with an overseer carrying a large stick watching over them. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Textiles: weaving and finishing fringes (top), the loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, parts of a loom (top), details of the tensioning mechanism (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver working by the light of a candle in a reflective sconce. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: lace making, two rotary warp-cages in use (top), and details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a loom for braid manufacture. Engraving by R. Benard after J.-R. Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a new type of loom being raised to working tension (top), details of the improvements (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, three looms in an interior. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A man weaving cloth. Watercolour by an Indian painter.
  • Textiles: the old method of attaching the rollers on a tapestry weaving loom. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: elevations and details of a power loom. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a mechanical carpet loom, three-quarter view, with spectators. Engraving, c.1862.
  • Textiles: a man looping cord around three dowels (top), details of the dowels and chain (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: threads on a loom for tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: the use of the bobbin in tapestry weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a loom, elevation of the short side. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: a child-sized loom for apprentice weavers to learn tapestry weaving on, elevation (top), section (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, ribbon being wound on to a frame (top), and details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: two women preparing for silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.