Cocoon Collection

Study sheet with various caterpillars, moths, an egg and a cocoon of the Bombya Neustria, 1824-1900

Study sheet with caterpillar, cocoon and moth with spread wings of the Aretia Menthaastri, 1848

Emperor moths, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Emperor moths, 19th century. Top Left: Caterpillar of Emperor Moth Among Bramble Leaves Marked by Leaf-Mine. Centre: Male Emperor Moth. Lower centre: Female Emperor Moth

Title Plate from "The Introduction of the Silkworm"[Vermis Sericus], ca. 1595 Creator: Karel van Mallery
Title Plate from " The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus], ca. 1595

Plate 6 (Examining the Newly Spun Cocoons), from the series "Kaiko Yashinai-gusa", Japan, c. 1772

Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo, 4th month, 1872

A Caterpillar and Two Moths on a Branch and Two Butterflies, early 18th-mid 18th century

Nude in the Bath, 1936. Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Nude in the Bath, 1936. Pierre Bonnard. Found in the collection of the Musee d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

The Story of the Largest British Beetle, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

5000 silkworms eat 125 lbs of mulberry for 8 skeins of silk, making one kimono, c1900, (1921). From Mysterious Japan, by Julian Street. [Doubleday, Page & Company, New York & Toronto, 1921]

Silk cocoons woven into mulberry branches, Antioch, Syria, 1900s. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Silk cocoons woven into mulberry branches, Antioch, Syria, 1900s

The Butterflies of Great Britain, c1855. Illustration from a work on butterflies by J O Westwood

Man drying silkworm cocoons, 19th century. The man dries the cocoons over a charcoal pan surrounded by a bamboo screen, using a blanket and fan to regulate the draught

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