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Japan: Two fashionably dressed women inspect a yarn of silk in a silk mill, c. 1890.

Japan: Two fashionably dressed women inspect a yarn of silk in a silk mill, c. 1890.

Silk was a major manufacturing industry in Meiji Japan. At the time of this 1890 print, the process was still semi-automated, with silk reeling by hand the norm.

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