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Heating and Preparing Cocoons, Reeling Silk [above left]; Drying Mulberry Leaves [below left]; The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworks [above right]; The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595

MediumOverall: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on two joined pieces of laid paper

DepartmentCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionCooper Hewitt

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Heating and Preparing Cocoons, Reeling Silk [above left]; Drying Mulberry Leaves [below left]; The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworks [above right]; The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves [below right]

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