Inside Out Library · Explore

China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 95

An illustration from China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary, 1812, leaf 95
erfly is contained in it in a kind of bag.The Chinese are very fond of the chry-salis as a dainty meat. The graine-cods are not fit for reeling;they are, however, not lost, being madeinto a kind of ferret-silk, or silky stuff.As to the cods whence the silk is obtain-ed, they are sold by the pound… … IR^IJ&SB?© S23LJS IVr.,111 tbieW®m3fflS Pu6?l4-4firilj$j26\ I T.Stoc/i» ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 73 This cruel, but unfortunately necessaryoperation, is performed by the steam ofboiling water. When the cocoons are about to bereeled, they are put into a caldron ofboiling water, eight, ten, or…

Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792 · Costume

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary

More like this