Figure 5. “The fashion of the Bottome...” Pattern poem by Virginia Ferrar, in The reformed Virginian silk-worm, or, A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652 (London, 1655), p. 20. JCB call number D655.H332rv.
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Detail of the poem.![](/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/foundjcb/images/01683-004detail.jpg)
Janice Neri and Danielle Skeehan, "The Mystery of the Silk Worm: Conversations in the Reading Room and Beyond," I Found it at the JCB, Online Journal of the John Carter Brown Library, August 2012. |