A silk filature (spinning mill), showing workers with reeling machines and silk cocoons being stoved or stifled, Shanghai

A silk filature (spinning mill), showing workers with reeling machines and silk cocoons being stoved or stifled, Shanghai

Identifier

RA-m184

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: RA-m184. A scan of a magic lantern slide. Royal Asiatic Society Library reference: Glass Slide.00/(184). A filature was an establishment for reeling silk from silk moth cocoons. See Hy01-45 and RA-m172 (images of other silk filatures).

Caption in album or on mount

184 / FILATURE SHANGHAI

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1900-1915

Material

Other

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland