"Native method of manufacturing cotton cloth. Shanghai sends out annually more than 8 million worth of native produce, principally silk and tea; also raw cotton, rice, paper, wheat, native cloth, sugar, tobac More
Weaving room in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Bottom left reads "Burkhard sc[ulpsit]." Bottom center reads "HOTEL DU STEINBOCK À COIRE, / par J.tenu G. Arnold." Aquatint and etching on wove paper.
Deutsch: Knud Holmboe Bedouins making mats 1930
Basket making in Hainan, China. The material is bamboo strips. The man spoke no Mandarin at all, so I couldn't ask him questions.