Encyclopedia: Weaving Plates, Part VIII - Finish Treatment/Apprêts
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A set of twelve engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie on silk manufacture (Soierie), compiled as Part VIII of a series of weaving plates. The plates show silk reeling and throwing equipment: the Piedmont throwing mill for organzine, Vaucanson's mill, the Spanish reel (Tour d'Espagne), reeling frames, the oval throwing machine, and the rouet de lion. Captions are in French, with numbered figures and scales in pieds, pouces and toises.
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- 1763
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 12
- Archive notes
- Contributed by Philippe Demoule
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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