Weaving Gallery

Waringstown, the Home of the Damask Weaving Industry

Waringstown, the Home of the Damask Weaving Industry - a street scene of the main street with horse vehicle broadside in the middle of the road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Waringstown). Date: circa early 1900s

© National Museums NI / Mary Evans

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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, man plucking quill feathers from geese in the Lincoln Fnes 35 and stage coach postillion with a whip made in Daventry 36. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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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. A chain of slaves travelling from the interior. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

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