Photograph by Krdelyi 



A ROUMANIAN WOMAN AT GAVOSDIA 



The peasant woman usually grows some silk. She huys the silk-worm eggs and uses 

 the spare hed, if there be one in the house, as a hatchery. She feeds the worms on mulberry 

 leaves, and, if the ants do not invade the place and destroy the worms, she soon has enough 

 liber for a veil or a waist. She spins and weaves it herself. 



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