[Ansteorra-textiles] Re: Ansteorra-textiles Digest, Vol 1, Issue 145

[Lady Catalina Ana de Salamanca]

Well the copy I have is In my Daily Life In Medieval Times. It's the 3 
Gies books all stuck into one big
thing. Anyway, page 184 is the start of the chaper VII from Daily Life 
In A Medieval Village. It has this picture but it's titled "The Working 
Class by Jean Bourdichon from The Four Estates of Society (15th c.)"
The carpenter has a red hat and undershirt and sky blue over tunic. The 
lady is spining flax and wearing a russet kirtle with fur cuffs and a 
black hood. Child on the floor is also wearing russet with red lacing up 
the front. Is this the right picture? Do you want me to bring it out to 
practice?
~Catalina

> 
> I am trying to track down a copy of a painting I saw in a book 
> several years ago.  It has a woman drop spinning in it, so I was 
> hoping that someone on this list might recognize a description.
> 
> It's from around 1500 and is called "The Holy Family," but it 
> actually depicts a carpenter and his wife and child.  He is on the 
> left-hand side of the picture, using a handplane at a workbench.  He 
> is wearing sky blue with something red (maybe a hat or hose; as I 
> said, it's been several years, and at the time I wasn't paying any 
> attention to the man's clothes).  His wife is standing to the right, 
> wearing a russet-brown dress with black cuffs and an apron.  She is 
> using a drop spindle.  The child is crawling around on the floor 
> collecting wood shavings in a basket.  
> 
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?  I have searched the internet, 
> but without an artist's name, it's a little difficult to find 
> anything.  There are an awful lot of paintings called "The Holy 
> Family" out there, and if the book was old, the name of the painting 
> might have changed.  
> 
> Gwenneth
> 
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