At 02:33 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote:
A colleague needs quickly to locate an image he remembers seeing of
a woman with a distaff stuck in her headdress. I'm sure I've seen
this one too -- I have a vague impression that she was walking or
going about other work, with a very small distaff stuck into a hat
or turban or wrapped veil.
Does this ring any bells for anyone?
We don't need a reproducible image, just a citation, to the original
manuscript or a secondary source.
Please feel free to forward this request elsewhere, if you know of
someone who might have the answer offhand.
Thanks,
Robin
There's a drawing of a Norse woman with spinning material attached to
her head with a band; she is basically using her head as the top of
the distaff. The drawing can be seen as Figure 16 (page 47) in
"Woven into the Earth: Textiles from Norse Greenland" by Else
Ostergard, Aarhus University Press 2004 [ISBN 87 7288 935 7]. The
caption states that the drawing is from 1555.
Joan Jurancich
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