EditorialSilk cloth buyers' guild of Vlissingen, guild token with no. 36, Brass token. Front: cloth merchant, standing behind the counter in his shop, measuring with a piece of fabric, left and right: male and female, between the two, on the counter: the number...
EditorialSilk cloth buyers' guild of Vlissingen, guild token with no. 44, Brass token. Front: cloth merchant, standing behind the counter in his shop, measuring with a piece of fabric, left and right: male and female, between the two, on the counter: the number...
Editorial?ventail (Fan). Sheila Hicks (American, born 1934); France, Paris. Date: 1990. Dimensions: 91.5 x 160.1 cm (36 x 63 in.). Skeins of linen, wrapped with cotton floss, couched with linen to handmade paper with imbedded hemp fibers; backed with linen, pla...
EditorialWomen spinning and carding wool. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 105. Border decoration including a grotesque with a fish's body. Lower margin; on the left, a woman turns a large green spinning-wheel by mea...
Editorial[Detail] Lower margin. A woman with spinning wheel. Beside her, a circular object [basket ?] with three skeins of red wool. On right, seated woman carding wool with two hand-cards. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. Source: Add. ...