Joan Jurancich wrote:
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?
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.
That's ... interesting. Not the one I was thinking of, and there's no actual
distaff involved here, but it might work. Thanks.
--Robin
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