Unwinding the silk cocoons
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600
name: label: After
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
label: Engraver
content: Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. View of women sorting and unwinding the cocoons and giving them the various stages of preparing the silk for weaving it, etc. Below the print caption in Latin: "Hinc vermium permullà saepe millia. Simul legunt parant ez telas feminae." "Cognes ramassées et mises dans une espèce de chaudière avec le Dividoir pour lever les soyes."
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-125-2
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.2 × 22.5 cm (7 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)