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Weaver Collection

Background imageWeaver Collection: Anderton Boat Lift

Anderton Boat Lift
The Anderton Boat Lift, near Northwich, Cheshire, England, which transfers the canal narrow boats from the River Weaver to the Trent and Mersey Canal and vice-versa. Date: June 1963

Background imageWeaver Collection: How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA

How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Lancashire Weaver / 1890S

Lancashire Weaver / 1890S
A weaver in a Lancashire cotton mill

Background imageWeaver Collection: Home of a Spitalfields weaver

Home of a Spitalfields weaver
Interior of a Huguenot silk weavers home in Spitalfields, London, showing the weaver hard at work at his loom, while other members of the family work on frames and spools

Background imageWeaver Collection: Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket

Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket on a frame set against the thatched roof of her house Date: circa 1904

Background imageWeaver Collection: Silk Weaver 1855

Silk Weaver 1855
A Spitalfields weaver at work

Background imageWeaver Collection: Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr

Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr. Rufus Weaver showing the nervous system of a man. Date: 1906

Background imageWeaver Collection: Social / Navajo Weaver

Social / Navajo Weaver
Navajo people outside their home, including Elle of Ganado, a noted weaver Date: 1923

Background imageWeaver Collection: Gossip about Fairies 15

Gossip about Fairies 15
Titania, queen of the Fairies, magically enamoured of Bottom, the Weaver, comes to her senses - - a scene from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream

Background imageWeaver Collection: A weaver weaving fabric on a loom in a cottage

A weaver weaving fabric on a loom in a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Background imageWeaver Collection: Gossip about Fairies 14

Gossip about Fairies 14
Titania, queen of the Fairies, is magically enamoured of Bottom, the Weaver, who has been magically endowed with a donkeys head - scene from A Midsummer Nights Dream

Background imageWeaver Collection: District of Adum in the town of Kumasi, Kingdom of Ashanti

District of Adum in the town of Kumasi, Kingdom of Ashanti (Ghana), early 19th century. Woman selling goods, weaving fabric on a loom, tending a stall

Background imageWeaver Collection: A Basotho woman making mats - South Africa

A Basotho woman making mats - South Africa. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Handloom weaver

Handloom weaver

Background imageWeaver Collection: Hand loom weaver

Hand loom weaver

Background imageWeaver Collection: Hand loom weaver early 1900s

Hand loom weaver early 1900s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Hand loom weaver / spinner early 1900s

Hand loom weaver / spinner early 1900s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Looms in a weaving shed, early 1900s

Looms in a weaving shed, early 1900s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Illustration of hand loom weaver, Victorian period

Illustration of hand loom weaver, Victorian period

Background imageWeaver Collection: Hand loom linen weaver in Belfast, Ireland, Victorian period

Hand loom linen weaver in Belfast, Ireland, Victorian period

Background imageWeaver Collection: Weaving Sik on a traditional foot-powered loom, Japan

Weaving Sik on a traditional foot-powered loom, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona province. The Strike of Igualada

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona province. The Strike of Igualada. Striking workers from the textile workshops, in the act of being harangued by their president. Engraving by Vela

Background imageWeaver Collection: Huguenot Hand-loom Weaver, Alma Street, Bethnal Green

Huguenot Hand-loom Weaver, Alma Street, Bethnal Green, East London Date: 1921

Background imageWeaver Collection: Persian carpet weavers and children, Kerman, Iran

Persian carpet weavers and children, Kerman, Iran
Persian carpet weavers and their children, Kerman, Iran Date: circa 1900s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Bottom the Weaver

Bottom the Weaver
An artists interpretation of Botom the Weaver from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream

Background imageWeaver Collection: Trades in Regency England. Sail cloth, stone quarries

Trades in Regency England. Sail cloth, stone quarries and timber for ship building. Sailors unfurling a canvas sail on a ship 13, men moving blocks of stone in a Portland quarry 14

Background imageWeaver Collection: Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58

Background imageWeaver Collection: Trades in Regency England: flannel market, copper

Trades in Regency England: flannel market, copper mines and shoe-maker. Man showing rolls of flannel cloth in Welchpool 46, miners digging for copper ore in Parys Mine, Anglesea 47

Background imageWeaver Collection: Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking

Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34

Background imageWeaver Collection: Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal

Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal
Two armed Mandinka slatees (slave merchants) guard a coffle of six enslaved men, each wearing a heavy wooden neck collar supported by the man in front. Senegal, West Africa, 1800s

Background imageWeaver Collection: Olive-naped weaver, Ploceus brachypterus

Olive-naped weaver, Ploceus brachypterus
Olive-naped weaver or round-winged weaver, Ploceus brachypterus. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds of Western Africa in Sir

Background imageWeaver Collection: African cuckoo-hawk, Aviceda cuculoides

African cuckoo-hawk, Aviceda cuculoides
African cuckoo-hawk or cuckoo falcon, Aviceda cuculoides. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds of Western Africa in Sir William

Background imageWeaver Collection: Ancient Flemish loom

Ancient Flemish loom

Background imageWeaver Collection: Star gazer and great weaver fish

Star gazer and great weaver fish
Star gazer, Uranoscopus scaber 82 and great weaver fish, Trachinus draco 83. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804

Background imageWeaver Collection: Black-headed yellow-collared weaver, Ploceus

Black-headed yellow-collared weaver, Ploceus melanocephalus capitalis (Capital tanager, Tanagra capitalis). Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Background imageWeaver Collection: Yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer

Yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer
Yellow-crowned bishop or Napoleon weaver, Euplectes afer (Yellow-crowned weaver, Ploceus flaviceps). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Background imageWeaver Collection: Arachnida spiders

Arachnida spiders: Protocepheus hericius 1, Cepheus latus 2, Cepheus cepheiformis 3, Tereticepheus palmicinctum 4, Phrynichus reniformis 5, Gnolus cordiformis 6, spinybacked orbed weaver

Background imageWeaver Collection: Village weaver bird and nest, Ploceus cucullatus

Village weaver bird and nest, Ploceus cucullatus, and crane fly, Tipula species. Tipule, Tisserin gendarme. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Background imageWeaver Collection: Scots pine and Norway pine

Scots pine and Norway pine
Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris 1-5, and red or Norway pine, Pinus resinosa 6, weaver beetle, Lamia textor 7 and pine beetle, Tomicus piniperda 8. Pin sauvage, Pin rouge

Background imageWeaver Collection: Common or greater weever, Trachinus draco

Common or greater weever, Trachinus draco. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

Background imageWeaver Collection: Greater weever, Trachinus draco

Greater weever, Trachinus draco (Greater weaver or sting-bull, Trachinus major). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes

Background imageWeaver Collection: White-billed buffalo weaver, Bubalornis albirostris

White-billed buffalo weaver, Bubalornis albirostris. (Weaver alecto, Textor alecto, Temminck). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker

Background imageWeaver Collection: Napoleon Weaver-Bird

Napoleon Weaver-Bird. Date: 1933

Background imageWeaver Collection: Basket weaver at work

Basket weaver at work. circa 1800

Background imageWeaver Collection: Governor Andros in Boston

Governor Andros in Boston
Edmund Andros was appointed governor of the Dominion of New England. He stands with a manservant in a Boston street, with various Bostonian men standing near and whispering to each other

Background imageWeaver Collection: Woman weaving on a frame, Ecuador, South America

Woman weaving on a frame, Ecuador, South America. Date: 1922

Background imageWeaver Collection: Illustration, Bottom as Pyramus

Illustration, Bottom as Pyramus
Illustration, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Bottom as Pyramus in the play within a play. 19th century

Background imageWeaver Collection: Algerian Basket Weavers

Algerian Basket Weavers Date: circa 1909



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