Silk weaving manual collection Manuscripts edited by Humphrey Davies

edited by Humphrey Davies

Reference: not in Palau

000-volume personal library that would end up in the Sutro library

Duke Albert Saxe-Teschen

making it inevitable to crown him the prize winner

Silk weaving manual collection Manuscripts edited by Humphrey DaviesCollection of Five Lyon Silk Weaving Volumes with Manuscript Textile Studies and Fabric Samples, ca. 19031928. A remarkable and highly specialized collection of five volumes relating to the theory and practice of silk weaving in Lyon during the early twentieth century, assembled and partly compiled by Andr Belal, a student of the cole des Sciences et Arts Industriels de Lyon La Martinire. The group dates from approximately 1903 to 1928 and provides an