Tribal tent, Bakhtiari, made of goats' hair. The carpet will be worked on by all the family. Photographer: Sevruguin, Antoine
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a group of men seated on the ground in front of their tent, with a partly completed carpet on a loom at the right. Probably photographed in Khuzestan Province, Iran.
The blanket weaver — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Navaho woman seated at a loom out of doors, seen from the rear: 'In Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogáns, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as...
Illustrations of agricultural machinery, modes of transport and other devices, including clocks, water wheels, windmills, fire engines, revolving bookshelves and looms.The manuscript may have been inspired by, or be a partial translation of, Agostino Ramelli's work Le diverse et artificiose machi...