Item 16: Gathering the silk-ends, fine-spun as cobwebs, and connecting with reels, [Mount Lebanon], Syria

Black and white image shows four girls and one workman gathering the silk ends in a silk reeling plant on Mount Lebanon. The little girl on the right has got hold of the ends of loose silk threads to bring them together to form a fiber of the necessary thickness. These threads are passed through the eyelets or guides of the arrangement overhead, and then transferred to the reeling frames boxed in at the left. The girl leaning against the wall is tying the loose ends. The two girls sitting down are detecting and picking out the fine loosened ends of the individual cocoon fibers. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company; copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.