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Subject Silk industry

1. IOR/G/29/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/1
Title:
‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
These two volumes contain the East India Company’s early correspondence about Persia [Iran], together with translations of firmans [farmāns, i.e. edicts] and trading privileges [rughūms] issued by the Shah and various Persian administrators between 19 March 1621 and 3 August 1697.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1621-3 Aug 1697
Extent:
2 volumes (252 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1
Title:
Vol 1 Letters inward and outward
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters sent from and received at the East India Company's Bushire Residency from the establishment of the settlement in early 1763 until late 1788. The letters are mostly between the Residency and the Agency in Basra or the Presidency at Bombay, but there are several letters fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1763-6 Dec 1788
Extent:
2 volumes in one slipcase (453 items (249 folios))

3. Or 15872

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15872
Title:
İpek böceği talimnamesi - ايپك بوجكى تعلیمنامه‌سی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an illustrated manual of silkworm breeding and silk production, produced by the ‘Harir Daru’t-talimi Mektebi’ of Bursa (depicted on f 4r) in 1317 AH/1899 CE. The title on the spine reads ‘İpek böceği talimnamesi,’ while the opening folio (f 5v) carries the title ‘Harir Daru’...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1317
Extent:

1 text, 134 ff

4. Photo 1000/52(4903)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4903)
Title:
Man operating a silk loom, Ghotal, Midnapur. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/52(4911)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4911)
Title:
Silk design knotters. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three figures seated at work on a verandah. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item