Medieval & Renaissance illustrations and artifacts relating to the process of combing or carding wool.
- Fols. 137r, 137v, 137r, 138v, 139v, 140v, 141v, 142v, 143r, 147r, the Smithfield Decretals (Brit. Lib. Royal 10 E IV), c. 1300-1340
- Woman carding wool, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 193r), c. 1325-1340
- A female descendant of Cain carding wool, Holkham Bible Picture Book (Brit. Lib. Add. 47682, fol. 6r), c. 1327-1335
- Minerva (fol. 13) and Tanaquil (fol. 70v), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598), beginning of the 15th century
- Tanaquil, De mulieribus claris (Brit. Lib. Royal 20 C V, fol. 75), beginning of the 15th century
- Wool-combers in the Mendel Hausbuch: Cunrad Kemmer (c. 1425),
Kuncz Kemer (1442),
Heinrich Pfeningspeck (1500)
- Tapestry: The labors of wool, c. 1500
- Hanns Bär (d. 1526), The Landauer Hausbuch
- Carding comb (MoL 2005.152), 16th century
- Breaking and skutching flax in November, The Da Costa Hours (PML M.399, fol. 12v), c. 1515
- Shearing and combing by Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg, c. 1594-1596
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