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Heating and Preparing Cocoons, Reeling Silk [above left]; Drying Mulberry Leaves [below left]; The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworks [above right]; The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves [below right]
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Heating and Preparing Cocoons, Reeling Silk [above left]; Drying Mulberry Leaves [below left]; The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworks [above right]; The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595 · Overall: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on two joined pieces of laid paper

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Credit lineHeating and Preparing Cocoons, Reeling Silk [above left]; Drying Mulberry Leaves [below left]; The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworks [above right]; The Silkworm Eggs Spread Out on Shelves [below right]. ca. 1595. Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Museum purchase through gift of various donors. CC0.
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