This illustration of a Chinese woman embroidering is from George Henry Mason, The Costumes of China. Illustrated by sixty engravings in English and French (London, l804). This woman is seated at a bamboo frame embossing upon satin or silk or velvet, flowers and figures in twisted braid.

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