18th century illustration of a cloce up of cotton carding - a technique used in Europe for separating cotton fibres. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial

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18th century illustration of a cloce up of cotton carding - a technique used in Europe for separating cotton fibres. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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