Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century

Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century. He sits with his legs in a pit, with the warp tied to a large rock, under a mat shade. A weaver. Tisserand negre. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

Boot Description Frederic Geoffroy Loom Manners Moors Powder Quiver Sahara Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Villeneuve Weaving

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