EditorialFeeding mulberry leaves to the silkworms, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Black ink on paper., Horizontal rectangle. At left, a woman is seated before trays of silkworms; center, a group of women, in another room, in background...
EditorialRecto: Four preliminary design for the 'Vermis Sericus' (Silk-making) print series. Above left: Winding silk. Below left: preparing mulberry leaves. Above right: arranging the leaves on shelves. Below right: feeding the mulberry leaves to the silkworms...
EditorialChinese woman reeling silk thread from wild silkworms, Bombyx mori, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, A...
EditorialRing with spokes in the form of silkworms, Wide ring with triangular spirals., anonymous, China, -500 - -200, Zhou-dynasty (1050 B.C.-221 B.C.), bronze (metal), d 8.5 cm ? d 0.3 cm.
EditorialEmperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks, Plate 2 from "The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus].
EditorialBombyx, Print, Bombyx is the genus of true silkmoths or mulberry silkmoths of the family Bombycidae, also known as silkworms, which are the larvae or caterpillars of silkmoths. The genus was erected by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema ...
EditorialBombyx, Print, Bombyx is the genus of true silkmoths or mulberry silkmoths of the family Bombycidae, also known as silkworms, which are the larvae or caterpillars of silkmoths. The genus was erected by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema ...
EditorialEmperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks, Plate 2 from "The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus].
EditorialCe qu'il faut de patience et d'abnegation pour qu'une feuille de murier devienne une robe de soie. Anthropomorphic image of birds and silkworms that are operating a weaving machine. Peines de c?ur d'une chatte anglaise.-Guide-a?ne a? l'usage des ani...
EditorialEmperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks, Plate 2 from "The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus].