Cocoons

Cocoon

Beautiful Cocoons

Container for cocoons

Preparing silk cocoons

Mayunoshuuka.kousai

Ivory Carving: Woman Unwinding Cocoons

Spinning silk from the cocoons

Cocoons and Silk Thread (Hikifuda Handbill)

No.6 Picture of the Silkworms Making Their Cocoons

Mayunosenbetsu.koufushinoseishikoujou

Mammoth plant of the Mitsui Company, boiling cocoons and reeling silk, Maebashi, Japan

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

After silk worm has finished his work - cocoons from which raw silk is produced, Shizuoka, Japan

ドンド焼 コヤ近くに運ばれた道祖神のコヤとマユ玉飾り

ドンド焼 小正月のマユ玉が飾られた山王下の道祖神

ドンド焼 コヤ近くに運ばれた道祖神のコヤとマユ玉飾り

[A Japanese woman, with one shoe (geta) off (to operate spinning machine), spinning silk from silkworm cocoons]

Illustration of Making Cocoons into Silk Floss, no.9, and no. 10, Illustration of Threading the Loom and Starting the Weaving