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Winding silk from the cocoons

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[Winding silk from the cocoons]. Description: A man and woman make silk thread. The woman unwinds the cocoons in a basin of water placed over a fire while the man drives a winding apparatus by hand. Source creator: Williams, Edward, fl. 1650. Source title: Virginia's discovery of silke-vvormes, with their benefit. And the implanting of mulberry trees. Source place of publication: London. Source publisher: Printed by T.H. for John Stephenson, at the Signe of the Sun, below Ludgate. Source date: 1650. Record number: 03526-1.

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