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Textiles: women in a garden sorting silkworm eggs for incubation. Engraving by B. Cole, 1749.
Wellcome Collection

Textiles: women in a garden sorting silkworm eggs for incubation. Engraving by B. Cole, 1749.

1753

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Women examining and preparing the eggs in order to put them in bags or boxes for hatching.

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