EditorialEngraving, Black ink and watercolors on paper, Horizontal strip: bear hunt. At left, a bear on its haunches crushes a hound with its foreleg as two other cogs rush it. At the right a hunter shoots a bear at close range. Colors green and brown, the hunt...
EditorialSamuel Wood, miller on the Isle of Dogs, lost his arm in the cogs of the mill, 1737. Saved by surgeons at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, Lond...
EditorialPlate XXVII from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Apparatus for grinding grain, inside a mill. Above (third floor), men pour grain through funnel into grinding bin. On floor beneath, two men turn wheels on axel w...
EditorialEngraving, Black ink and watercolors on paper, Horizontal strip: bear hunt. At left, a bear on its haunches crushes a hound with its foreleg as two other cogs rush it. At the right a hunter shoots a bear at close range. Colors green and brown, the hunt...
EditorialWindowpane with two men in cogs ship with flag with arms Amsterdam, Large window with the image of two men standing in the cogs ship. One carries the flag with the arms of Amsterdam, anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1699, glass, h 126.6 cm ? w 109.2 cm.
EditorialWindow with two men in cogs and flag with arms Amsterdam, Large window with the image of two men standing in cogs One carries the flag with the arms of Amsterdam., anonymous, 1671, glass, h 126.6 cm ? w 108.6 cm.
EditorialA worker feeds a machine that stamps the brand’s name on the sticks, at the Hagorom chalk factory in Pocheon, South Korea, Oct. 23, 2020. (Jean Chung/The New York Times)
EditorialStrip of needle lace with serpentines, Strip of natural colored needle lace: flat Venetian lace. Irregular open bar soil of short bars set with cogs picots. Thin intersecting spiral spirits form a running pattern of serpentines. Straight outer frame of...
EditorialSpool lace cuff with ivy leaf, Natural spool lace cuff: Valenciennes lace. Repetitive motif of ivy leaves on a nice square Valenciennes ground, with a row of slightly staggered pouches above it. The top is finished with a straight edge. On the undersid...
EditorialStrip of needle lace with stems and palmetal flowers, Strip of natural colored needle lace: flat Venetian lace. On an open bar of ground, decorated with cogs, are truncated stems on which carefully detailed palm flowers grow. A straight exterior in tur...
EditorialNeedle-side jabot with thin spiral tendons, Natural-colored needle-side jabot: Venetian embossed lace. The lace is composed of two double strips sewn on top of each other. On a very open bar stock with picots, in the form of cogs, are walking spiral vi...
EditorialModel of a Capstan with a Winch, Model of a capstan in a wooden frame with two levels. It is a pivot for eight wind trees with a winch in the metal head and four catches in the foot against the decline. The drum is operated either with the wind trees o...
EditorialStrip of needle lace with feathered tendrils. On an open bar stock is a running pattern of wide-ranging, feathered volute drinks with palmetal flowers. Straight thick outer frame with small cogs picots. Venise flat., anonymous, Venice, c. 1675 - c. 169...
EditorialBobbin lace strip with ivy leaf, On a coarse fond of square meshes, separate from each other, one-sided ivy leaves and mussels above deep scallops, formed by interconnected cogs. Valenciennes side., anonymous, Netherlands (possibly), c. 1910 - c. 1920,...
EditorialBobbin lace collar with ivy leaf, Natural color Bobbin lace collar, Valenciennes lace. The collar is made of a double strip of lace, on the fold line a smaller, wrinkled strip of lace is sewn. A mother-of-pearl button is attached on one side. The doubl...
EditorialWindowpane with two men in cogs ship with flag with arms Amsterdam, Large window with the image of two men standing in the cogs ship. One carries the flag with the arms of Amsterdam, anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1699, glass, h 126.6 cm ? w 109.2 cm.
EditorialSpool lace cuff with ivy leaf, Natural spool lace cuff: Valenciennes lace. The cuff consists of two strips sewn together. The strip at the top has a repetitive motif with ivy leaves on a square Valenciennes ground. Two dots between the successive leave...
EditorialWindow with two men in cogs and flag with arms Amsterdam, Large window with the image of two men standing in cogs One carries the flag with the arms of Amsterdam., anonymous, 1671, glass, h 126.6 cm ? w 108.6 cm.
EditorialStrip of needle lace with serpentines, Strip of natural colored needle lace: flat Venetian lace. Irregular open bar soil of short bars set with cogs picots. Thin intersecting spiral spirits form a running pattern of serpentines. Straight outer frame of...
EditorialStrip of linen with openwork circles with suns and stars, Strip of natural-colored linen with openwork circles: English embroidery. The lower half of the strip has been edited. The pattern consists of thirteen rows of openwork circles with embroidered ...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with flower clusters, on a mesh base (square meshes) are one-sided strips of three flowers above a zigzag-scalloped edge with connected cogs. Valenciennes side., anonymous, Netherlands (possibly), c. 1910 - c. 1920, linen (material...
EditorialJabot of needle lace with intersecting tendrils, Jabot of natural-colored Venetian needle lace 'gros point'. Very open fond of bars decorated with cogs. Symmetrical C-volutes in the heart give rise to wide-flowing volute drinks, which swell and are pro...
EditorialNeedle lace jabot with heart shaped tendrils, Natural needle lace jabot: Venetian rose lace. On a very open ground that is full of cogs, there is a symmetrical decor on either side of a thin candelabrum motif of multi-purpose palms, consisting of two s...
EditorialSamuel Wood, miller on the Isle of Dogs, lost his arm in the cogs of the mill, 1737. Saved by surgeons at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, Lond...