Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10116
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Heckling of hemp plant fibre
Date
1804
Creator
Richard Reeve (1780, British) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X99/4
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 270mm
width (print): 270mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of the process of heckling hemp to separate the plant fibres. The fibres were subjected to repeated combing by different grades of heckle [comb] to prepare the material for use in rope-making or cloth-production. The scene shows workmen processing the plant and this is surmounted by a decorative border with hemp plants Cannabis sativa, heckling combs, scutches and other equipment.
Plate 5 in the monograph On the cultivation and preparation of hemp; as also of an article produced in various parts of India...by Robert Wissett (London, 1804).
Inscribed “Pl.5. Etch’d by Reeve. Heckling”.
Robert Wissett (d.1820), Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
Plate 5 in the monograph On the cultivation and preparation of hemp; as also of an article produced in various parts of India...by Robert Wissett (London, 1804).
Inscribed “Pl.5. Etch’d by Reeve. Heckling”.
Robert Wissett (d.1820), Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
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