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Historical Archive: Spinning and Sewing


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woman spinning or presenting spinning from Susa, bitumen, 8th-mid 6th c. BCE, Louvre Sb 2834
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grave stone of Veriuga, Dunapentele (Hungary) early 2nd c., HNM 56.1911.3=62.54.1
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grave stone of Veriuga, Dunapentele (Hungary) early 2nd c., HNM 56.1911.3=62.54.1
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grave stone of Veriuga: distaff and spindle, Dunapentele (Hungary) early 2nd c., HNM 56.1911.3=62.54.1
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Mary at Annunciation, ivory pyxis, 6th c. provincial Byzantine (Ravenna?), CMA 1951.114. For contiguous images see CMA.
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Annunciation, Ordeal, Flight; ivory, 6th c. eastern Mediterranean (Syria?), Louvre OA 11149. Part of same object as Hermitage Visitation/Annunciation to Anna.
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Mary's Trial by Bitter Water, ivory, 6th c. eastern Mediterranean (Syria?), Louvre OA 11149. Part of same object as Hermitage Visitation/Annunciation to Anna.
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Genoels-Elderen ivories, late 8th/early 9th c., MRAH 1474. This work has its own page.
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Novgorod cathedral doors, bronze, prob. 1152-54. The doors have their own page.
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labor of Eve: footed beaker with Creation, enameled mold-blown glass, Venice c.1490, KGM 1935,51, which has its own page
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Mary making garment for Christ: St. Luke painting Virgin fr. church St. Mary Magdalene Wrocław, limewood c.1506, Jakob Beinhart (fl. Wrocław 1483-1525), MNW Śr. 15. This work has its own page.
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Spinning/reading, wool/silk tapestry, c.1520, Cluny Cl. 2182. For scale and more details see Cluny.
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Spinning/reading, wool/silk tapestry, c.1520, Cluny Cl. 2182