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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Woman Sitting at Spinning Wheel, 1890
‘Woman sitting at spinning wheel inside Curman Villa’ cyanotype. Lysekil, Sweden 1890
Alsatian at the Wheel, 1910
‘Alsatian at the Wheel’ (Alsacienne au Rouet) postcard, Alsace, France before 1910
Love Song
‘Vigil Bressane’ (Veillée Bressane) postcard. Bourg-en-Bresse, France 1905 Love Song ‘Konopa konopa Koho rada vidímn’ (Hemp Hemp – To One Who I Like To See) is an ancient Slovak song steeped in the culture of hemp. It Read More …
Villagers Process Hemp, 1936
Villagers process hemp, Hungary 1936
Three Generations, 1913
‘Three generations of Appen with spinning wheel’. Appen, Germany 1913
Irish Wheel, early 1900’s
An Irish family outside a thatched cottage while a woman spins at the wheel, Ireland, between 1900-1920
Music for Spinners, 1890
Music for the Spinners, 1890’s
The Spinner, 1889
“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.” -Francis Cabot Lowell The Spinner by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Hemp For Traitors, 1861
Hemp for Traitors’ Civil War Postal Cover (printed picture on envelope) By J.F. Nash (out of Boston) 1861-1865. I always thought these to be standard size (around 4in x 9 1/2in or so) but these are the small Read More …