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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03526
Record number:
03526-1
JCB call number:
D650 W722vd
Image title:
[Winding silk from the cocoons]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T.H. for John Stephenson]
Image date:
[1650]
Image function:
illustration; p. [15]
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
15.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
A man and woman make silk thread. The woman unwinds the cocoons in a basin of water placed over a fire while the man drives a winding apparatus by hand.
Source creator:
Williams, Edward, fl. 1650
Source Title:
Virginia's discovery of silke-vvormes, with their benefit. And the implanting of mulberry trees
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed by T.H. for John Stephenson, at the Signe of the Sun, below Ludgate.
Source date:
1650
Time Period:
1601-1650
References exhibitions:
Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, fig. 42, item 92.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Silk spinning
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