Note that that wood cut is actually out of Olaus Magnus' A Description of the Northern Peoples. I'll pull the full citation with page whenI get home. (I have a facimilie of the original printing.)
Anne Decker > Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:20:58 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Seeking an image -- distaff on a hat > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
