Item 5: Cotton roving, four processes

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows four pairs of spoolstotaling eight. Four of the spools, each of which is a different length, are wrapped with cotton fiber and mounted on a block; the matching spools stand below and are bare. The thickness of the cotton fiber corresponds to the length of the spool it is wrapped around; the cotton fiber is at its narrowest on the shortest spool, but at its thickest on the longest one. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.