Picture Details
Cultivating and spinning cotton
Partner:
Wellcome Library, LondonImage reference:
V0024067Origin:
IndiaDescription:
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The top picture in this engraving shows cotton bolls being picked from the field and packed into large sacks for transport to the factory to be spun and woven. Before being packed the man with the hand-operated gin, sitting on the veranda, is separating the cotton fibres or lint from the seeds. Below this the image shows a man carding the cotton, removing the last impurities from the cotton and separating the fibres. There is a more detailed image of the tool he is using for this at the bottom. This engraving is from Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts, et des m?tiers, Diderot, D and J. le R. D'Alembert (1762-1773), Paris.
Bibliographic Info:
Diderot, D and J. le R. D'Alembert. (1762-1773). Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts, et des m?tiers. Paris.
