Period:Unknown Production date:07.07.1927 (?)
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:spinner/spinning
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 106 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); A group of people, men and women, seated outside in a courtyard with spinning wheels preparing wool to be used in the local carpet industry. Two women wearing very large Gyantse-region hooped head-dresses are seated in the lower right of the image [a closer view of these women can be seen in BMH.D.35.1]. Open weave baskets full of wool can be seen in the left of the frame. Hopkinson visited Gobshi on a number of occasions [see Notes]. Gobshi was about 4 miles from Gyantse and was well known for its carpet industry, which Hopkinson was interested in photographing. . Tibet. Photographic process
IMG
![图片[1]-negative (polymer film)(black and white) BM-2015-OA+.295-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_bmh_d_34_1_O.jpg)
Comments:This negative is kept in one of several original wallets used by Hopkinson.. Image taken during A. J. Hopkinson’s Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28.
Materials:plastic
Technique:photographic process
Subjects:spinner/spinning
Dimensions:Height: 85 millimetres Width: 106 millimetres
Description:
Negative (black and white); A group of people, men and women, seated outside in a courtyard with spinning wheels preparing wool to be used in the local carpet industry. Two women wearing very large Gyantse-region hooped head-dresses are seated in the lower right of the image [a closer view of these women can be seen in BMH.D.35.1]. Open weave baskets full of wool can be seen in the left of the frame. Hopkinson visited Gobshi on a number of occasions [see Notes]. Gobshi was about 4 miles from Gyantse and was well known for its carpet industry, which Hopkinson was interested in photographing. . Tibet. Photographic process
IMG
Comments:This negative is kept in one of several original wallets used by Hopkinson.. Image taken during A. J. Hopkinson’s Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28.
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