EditorialThe Sickly Cryptogam. Charles Meryon; French, 1821-1868. Date: 1860. Dimensions: 71 ? 59 mm (image); 71 ? 59 mm (plate); 193 ? 151 mm (sheet). Etching with plate tone on blue-green laid paper with violet and red fibres. Origin: France.
EditorialThe Sickly Cryptogam. Charles Meryon; French, 1821-1868. Date: 1860. Dimensions: 71 ? 59 mm (image); 71 ? 59 mm (plate); 193 ? 151 mm (sheet). Etching with plate tone on blue-green laid paper with violet and red fibres. Origin: France.
EditorialThe Sickly Cryptogam. Charles Meryon; French, 1821-1868. Date: 1860. Dimensions: 71 ? 59 mm (image); 71 ? 59 mm (plate); 193 ? 151 mm (sheet). Etching with plate tone on blue-green laid paper with violet and red fibres. Origin: France.
EditorialWool-comber combing out wool remove short fibres. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818.
EditorialSpinning distaffs with elaborate floral and geometric patterns and scenes from everyday Russian life. Women pulled carded tuffs of wool or flax through the notches along the top of the painted panels, then twisted the fibres to yarn between their fingers.
EditorialFragments of a papyrus roll, writing on one side only, preserved in seven cases. . Sophocles, Ichneutae , fragments (P. Lond. Lit. 67; P. Oxy. IX 1174, P. Oxy. IX 1175 [=Papyrus 2069] fr.46 and P. Oxy. XVII 2081a; TM 62741). 2nd half of the 2nd centur...
EditorialPapyrus. Cairo, AD 749. Papyrus; the text is written at right angles to the fibres in an uneven, ligatureless hand. Letter from Martha to her son Apa Julius. She sends greetings from several others and desires him to come to her. See: W.E. Crum, Catalo...
EditorialWool-comber combing out wool remove short fibres. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818.
EditorialThistle pulp cells magnified under a microscope, 18th century. Normal size A, and enlarged B to show a ring of sexagonal cells, surrounded by fibres to bring sap and nutrients. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (...
EditorialEuropean garden spider, diadem spider, Araneus diadematus. Black variety 1, red variety hanging from a silk line 2,3, front of head showing eyes and mandibles 4, silk spinnerets with fibres, and silk tubes 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Ber...
EditorialMagnified image under a microscope of the fibres of a sponge 1, and two-tone taffeta fabric, with yellow weft and purple warp 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedr...
EditorialSpinning distaffs with elaborate floral and geometric patterns and scenes from everyday Russian life. Women pulled carded tuffs of wool or flax through the notches along the top of the painted panels, then twisted the fibres to yarn between their fingers.