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Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.

Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

A man and a woman making pins and needles. Woodcut by J. Amman.

A safety pin with the message in German: 'Symbol of security: Safer Sex''; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.

Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

An old woman is threading a needle, there are various sewing instruments on the table. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M.W. Sharp.

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Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.

An old woman is threading a needle, there are various sewing instruments on the table. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M.W. Sharp.

A safety pin with the message in German: 'Symbol of security: Safer Sex''; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.

A man and a woman making pins and needles. Woodcut by J. Amman.