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

sscott at datuma.com sscott at datuma.com
Sat Jun 21 08:38:17 PDT 2003


That sounds like it!  Thanks, that'd be great!

Gwenneth

> 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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