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Medieval & Renaissance illustrations and artifacts relating to weaving and looms.
See also Early Narrow-ware Looms in Period Artwork and these links on weaving and looms.
BACKSTRAP LOOMS
BAND LOOMS/TABLET-WEAVING LOOMS
Also some Viking-age horn tablets: SHM 4683, SHM 5208
- Mural cycle showing the processing of silk and flax at the Kanonikerhaus in Constance, Germany, c. 1320: fingerloop braiding and weaving on a band loom
- Three queens spinning, weaving, and embroidering, Avis aus Roys (PML M.456, fol. 56r), c. 1340-1360
- Depiction of a weavers’ workshop, 14th century
- A weaver, 14th century
- Arachne (fol. 29) and
Penelope (fol. 58), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598), beginning of the 15th century
- Arachne (fol. 30v) and Penelope (fol. 61v), De mulieribus claris (British Library, Royal 20 C V), first quarter of the 15th century
- Mary weaving in the Temple, a book of hours (KB 76 F 21, fol. 14r), c. 1400-1410
- Mary weaving, book of hours (Douce 144, fol. 19r), 1407
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.1004, fol. 17r), c. 1415-1430
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.453, fol. 24r), c. 1420-1435
- Annunciation, Pilgrimage of the Heart (BNF Fr. 376, fol. 116v), second quarter of the 15th century
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.453, fol. 30v), c. 1425-1430
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.64, fol. 21r), c. 1425-1435
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.359, fol. 26v), c. 1430-1435
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (KB 135 J 50, fol. 14v), c. 1430-1450
- The Holy Family at work, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917, fol. 149), c. 1440
- Arachne (fol. 21v) and
Penelope (fol. 45v), De claris mulieribus (British Library Royal 16 G V), c. 1440
- Annunciation, book of hours (Harley 2915, fol. 14v), c. 1440-1450
- The Minyades scorn Bacchus, Ovid's Metamorphoses (BNF Fr. 137, fol. 42v), second half of the 15th century
- Annunciation, Vita Jesu Christi (BNF Fr. 181, fol. 10v), second half of the 15th century
- Annunciation, Festal Missal (KB 128 D 30, fol. 37r), c. 1460
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.1003, fol. 31r), c. 1460-1470
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.1001, fol. 18r), c. 1470-1480
- Mary weaving (fol. 8v) and Gabriel appears to Mary as she sits weaving (fol. 17r), Gesta infantiae salvatoris (Douce 237), c. 1470-1480
- Italy, Secrets of Natural History (BNF Fr. 22971, fol. 38), c. 1480-1485
- Education of the Virgin, a book of hours (Bibl. Mazarine MS Faralicq 03, fol. 22), c. 1485-1495
- The children of Octavian, Livre de bonnes moeurs (Musée Condé 297, fol. 117v), c. 1490
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.197, fol. 18r), c. 1495-1505
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.156, fol. 146v), c. 1500
- Mary weaving, book of hours/prayerbook (MMW 10 F 14, fol. 88v), c. 1500-1525
- Mary at the loom from a fresco at the Church of St. Primus and Felicianus, Slovenia, 1504; detail shows her pattern-book
BOX LOOMS
FLOOR LOOMS
- The skilfulness of women, Job with catena (Barocci 201, fol. 220v), c. 1175-1225
- Detail from the scenes of the life of St. Severus in Boppard, first half of the 13th century
- Weavers (including a warp-weighted loom?), Reiner Musterbuch (ÖNB 507, fol. 2r), c. 1200-1220
- Details from the Theodore and Vincent Window and Savinian, Potentian and Modesta Window at Chartres Cathedral, c. 1215-1225
- Mural cycle showing the processing of silk and flax at the Kanonikerhaus in Constance, Germany, c. 1320: a woman weaves while a child reels thread, silk-weaving (again, really more of a vertical loom)
- Weaving by Andrea Pisano, 1337-1342
- Naamah working at her loom, Egerton Genesis Picture Book (British Library, Egerton 1894, fol. 2v), c. 1360
- A weaver from a 14th century illustration at the Stadtbibliothek in Nuremburg (check out his feet!)
- Minerva (fol. 13) and
Tanaquil (fol. 70v), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598), beginning of the 15th century
- Tanaquil, De mulieribus claris (British Library, Royal 20 C V, fol. 75), first quarter of the 15th century
- Details from the Genesis Window at the Church of St. Martin in Halle, first half of the 15th century
- Weavers in the Mendel Hausbuch:
Hans Weber (c. 1425),
Seytz Weber (c. 1425),
Kunz Meir (1524),
Hanns Nöckl (1536),
Thomas Holantt (1584),
Hans Preuning (1588),
Hanns Rieter (1594),
Jacob Schmid (1604)
- Pamphila weaves silk at a warp-weighted loom (fol. 54v), Tanaquil (fol. 56), De claris mulieribus (British Library Royal 16 G V), c. 1440
- Arachne scorns Minerva, Ovid's Metamorphoses (BNF Fr. 137, fol. 73v), second half of the 15th century
- A weaver in his workshop and a dyer hanging wool, Schachzabelbuch (Stuttgart Landesbibliothek Cod.poet. 2° 2, fol. 196v), 1467
- Weaver, Journey to the Holy Land (ÖNB 2838, fol. 107r), 1476
- Pallas and Arachne at the loom, Metamorphoses (British Library Royal 17 E IV, fol. 87v), last quarter of the 15th century
- Detail from the Triumph of Minerva frescoes by Francesco del Cossa at Palazzo Schifanoia, c. 1476-1484
- Cassone panel with the departure of Ulysses by Guidoccio di Giovanni Cozzarelli
- Nuns at an upright tapestry loom in a detail from a tapestry of the Passon, c. 1490-1500
- Weavers in the Landauer Hausbuch: Enndres Mader (1513), Michael Mülner (1524), and Hanns Golner (1554)
- Penelope with the Suitors by Pintoricchio, c. 1509
- A weaver in The Metamorphoses, 1518
- Minerva visits Arachne's workshop by Luca Penni
- The Weaver in Das Standebuch, 1568
- A family of weavers by Jodocus van Winghe
- Penelope by Leandro Bassano, c. 1575-1585
- Weaver in a stained glass roundel from Sternberk, c. 1580-1600
- Spinning and weaving by Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg, c. 1594-1596
- Household interior by Jacopo Bassano
- Penelope by Bassano
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