Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18692

    Loom

    Date
    1678
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 213mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Figure depicting a handloom, with detail views of the handle and shuttle.

    Inscribed: 'Trans: No. 140
    Shuttle
    The arm carring the Shuttle
    Serpent'

    Illustration to ‘A new engine to make linen-cloth without the help of artificer, presented to the Royal Academy, by Monsieur de Gennes, an officer belonging to the sea. Extracted out of the journal de scavans’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, issue 140 (August 1678).
    Associated place
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