Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 106
try is covered by themulberry tree, which grows in everyavailable spot. There are thousands ofhand-looms. In the picture given, thesilk is being wound into a thread fromthe cocoons, which are thrown into apan of hot water, kept hot by a smallfurnace ; the ends of the threads aredisentangled from… … SILK REELING. A TYPICAL ENTRANCETO A HOUSE. This particular house was at Mukden,in Manchuria. The main building issurrounded by a courtyard. The outerbuilding contains the servants rooms.They live around the courtyard, thefamily occupying the central building.The windows of the servants roomsmay be…
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