01 SUGAR P.Van der Aa's Zee-en Landreizen , Amsterdam 1727, a treatise on the sugar industry of the West Indies, here a sugar mill at work in one cyclic image.
 
02 CULTURE OF TOBACCO T.Shoon, Waare Oeffening en Ontleding des Planten
The Hague 1692. The entire process is visible at the same time the growing, hanging and storing of the crop.  

03 BOAT BUILDING from de Bry, Les Grands Voyages et les Petits Voyages Frankfurt 1590 - 1624

04 VOLUME CAR PRODUCTION illustration by Earl Winslow to Henry Dent's Wide Road Ahead New York 1938

05 CHICKEN INCUBATION An engraving of uncertain parentage c1750 19 x 30cms coll. David Plumtree

 
 

SILK

In these images the illustrator tries to sum up the one cylic industrial process in the single image without recourse to a diagram.

LEFT AND RIGHT T.B., A Compendious Account of Breeding and Nursing and the Right Ordering of the Silk Worm , London 1710. The illustration shows the worms brought to the mulberry leaf for feeding in the factory. The illustrator has taken great pains to make the image as realistic as possible with the reactions of the figures and the presence of the little boy. There is a most efficient compression of the working environment into the frame of the illustration.

MIDDLE rom another perpective, a treatise on silkmaking written by Jean Bonoeil, representing the growth and flight of the silk worm to moth. P.Van der Aa's Zee-en Landreizen , Amsterdam 1727, a treatise on the sugar industry of the West Indies, here a sugar mill at work in one cyclic image.