Three Friends on the Spinning Wheel, 1900
‘The three friends on the spinning wheel, we talk, we talk… and the tempo passes’ (Les trois amies au rouet on file, on cause, … et le tempa passe), postcard. Normandy, France taken sometime around 1900
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Old Spinner, 1900’s
‘Old Spinner’ (vieille fileuse) postcard. Bourbonnais, France early 1900’s
Adam Tilling the Ground & Eve Spinning, 14th Century
‘Adam Tilling the Ground and Eve Spinning’ stained glass panel dating to the 14th Century, originally displayed in the Marienkirche (St. Mary’s) church in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Following WW2 the panel was seized from Potsdam by the Soviet Military Administration Read More …
Pigs Can’t Spin, pre1910
‘Spinners of the Distaff’ (Les Fileuses de Quenouilles), postcard showing women spinning hemp with pigs. Tarn, France pre1910
Pigs are Spinning, 1673
‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …
Woman Sitting at Spinning Wheel, 1890
‘Woman sitting at spinning wheel inside Curman Villa’ cyanotype. Lysekil, Sweden 1890
Distaff Spinning Contest, 1900s
‘Competing in a distaff spinning contest’ (concours de filage à la quenouille concurentes) postcard. Gourdon, France early 1900’s
Alsatian at the Wheel, 1910
‘Alsatian at the Wheel’ (Alsacienne au Rouet) postcard, Alsace, France before 1910
Auvergnate Spinner, 1903
‘Auvergnate Spinner’, woman hand spins hemp with the name ‘A. S. Landoz’ hand written on the reverse. Auvergne, France 1903
Villagers Process Hemp, 1936
Villagers process hemp, Hungary 1936