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The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates
Title
The Chinese silk manufactory represented in twelve copper plates [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 26 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy unbound, in contemporary (?) brown paper wrappers. Uncolored. Housed with the 30 other sets of prints in this series. With the printed advertisement (1 sheet) listing the 31 sets.
Notes
Title from top margin of print 1.
"Book 2" of 31 sets of prints published by Carrington Bowles, 1771-1785. A contemporary advertisement for the series notes: "Various sets, or books, of beautiful and entertaining prints, on half sheets of fine demy paper; containing 12 prints in each. Price 3s. plain, or 8s. each book, finely coloured. Printed for and sold by the proprietor Carrington Bowles, at his map and print warehouse, no. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, London."
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 06, 2014
Contents
1. The silk worms gathered and carried into the house
2. A woman disposing the silk worms in proper order
3. The gathering of mulberry leaves to feed the silk worms
4. The daily practice of giving the silk worms fresh leaves
5. The manner of cleaning the ozier hurdles that hold the leaves
6. The method of taking the silk worm bags from the whisk
7. The Chinese method of winding the silk off the bags in warm water
8. The Chinese practice of winding four silk threads at once
9. The Chinese at of twisting silk threads
10. The Chinese method of putting the silk warp into the looms
11. A Chinese silk weaver at work in his loom
12. Flower'd silks wove by two women in China.
References
Bowles, C. Carington Bowles's new and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans. London, 1784, page 138
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Engravings.
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