Anderton Boat LiftThe 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
How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s
Lancashire Weaver / 1890SA weaver in a Lancashire cotton mill
Home of a Spitalfields weaverInterior 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
Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket on a frame set against the thatched roof of her house Date: circa 1904
Silk Weaver 1855A Spitalfields weaver at work
Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr. Rufus Weaver showing the nervous system of a man. Date: 1906
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
Gossip about Fairies 15Titania, queen of the Fairies, magically enamoured of Bottom, the Weaver, comes to her senses - - a scene from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream
Social / Navajo WeaverNavajo people outside their home, including Elle of Ganado, a noted weaver Date: 1923
Gossip about Fairies 14Titania, 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
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
Handloom weaver
Hand loom weaver
Hand loom weaver early 1900s
Hand loom weaver / spinner early 1900s
Looms in a weaving shed, early 1900s
Illustration of hand loom weaver, Victorian period
Hand loom linen weaver in Belfast, Ireland, Victorian period
Weaving Sik on a traditional foot-powered loom, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
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
A Basotho woman making mats - South Africa. Date: circa 1930s
Huguenot Hand-loom Weaver, Alma Street, Bethnal Green, East London Date: 1921
Persian carpet weavers and children, Kerman, IranPersian carpet weavers and their children, Kerman, Iran Date: circa 1900s
Bottom the WeaverAn artists interpretation of Botom the Weaver from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream
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
Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58
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
Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34
Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, SenegalTwo 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
Olive-naped weaver, Ploceus brachypterusOlive-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
African cuckoo-hawk, Aviceda cuculoidesAfrican 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
Ancient Flemish loom
Star gazer and great weaver fishStar 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
Black-headed yellow-collared weaver, Ploceus melanocephalus capitalis (Capital tanager, Tanagra capitalis). Handcoloured copperplate drawn
Yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes aferYellow-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
Arachnida spiders: Protocepheus hericius 1, Cepheus latus 2, Cepheus cepheiformis 3, Tereticepheus palmicinctum 4, Phrynichus reniformis 5, Gnolus cordiformis 6, spinybacked orbed weaver
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
Scots pine and Norway pineScots 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
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
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
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
Napoleon Weaver-Bird. Date: 1933
Basket weaver at work. circa 1800
Governor Andros in BostonEdmund 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
Woman weaving on a frame, Ecuador, South America. Date: 1922
Illustration, Bottom as PyramusIllustration, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Bottom as Pyramus in the play within a play. 19th century
Algerian Basket Weavers Date: circa 1909