Women unwinding silk cocoons

Women unwinding silk cocoons

1875 - 1895

color prints (photographs)

Japan; Bombyx (genus); sericulture

This print shows three women in the process of unwinding silk from cocoons and winding them in preparation for spinning.Turner has added the inscription "working in silk."

Pitts Theology Library

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