Title

Female silk worker, Spitalfields, London, 1833. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Female silk worker, Spitalfields, London, 1833. A woman is winding silk onto the warping frame. The Spitalfields silk industry was begun by Huguenot refugees who left France after the Revocation by Louis XIV of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. From The Saturday Magazine. (London, 16 November 1833).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1833

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_246

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,7Mb) / 17,9in x 10,8in / 5378 x 3249 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England female women woman people job industry manufacturing trade occupation winding Victorian century textiles profession fabric silk lady B&W MONOCHROME textile industry Warp 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Tower Hamlets Oxford Science Archive Spitalfields textile manufacturing textile worker TGN warping frame textiles worker engraving Unknown engraving