Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Title: Women Spinning and Carding Wool
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Description: The woman to the right cards raw wool and sets the prepared hanks between her and the spinning woman to the left. The spinner uses a “great wheel,” which produced thread more quickly than the drop spindle but at a lower quality: the spinner had to use one hand to operate the wheel and was left with only one hand to draft the fibers, resulting in uneven thread. The woman here turns the wheel by pushing a rod against the spokes, but sometimes a great wheel was turned by a crank.
Source: WorldImages (California State University)
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License
Subject (See Also): Psalters, Liturgical Books Spinning Textiles- Production Work
Geographic Area: British Isles
Century: 14
Date: ca. 1325-1335
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Current Location: London, British Library, Add. MS 42130, fol. 193r
Original Location: Lincolnshire
Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment);
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