For the Love of Textiles

Title : Man and Woman at a spinning wheel. Artist : Pieter Pieterz. (Antwerp 1540 - Amsterdam 1603) Dating : 1560 - 1570 Immediately after last nights post a little discussion appeared here and on Facebook. It is always nice to get response on my writing.... The topic is about the -what I thought was- a drop-spindle on the Medieval picture.  Is it the bobbin from the spinning-wheel on the left of the painting..or is it a drop-spindle?? It definitely doesn't look like my Turkish Ashford spindle....that is for sure.. Here are some interesting points of view.. Spinning Hero Michael  wrote: Now, I thought I'd try to answer your spinning question. I think that we're looking at in the picture is a bobbin, not a drop spindle. If you look to the left , there appears to be a spinning wheel, so that makes me think that what she is holding in her left hand is a filled bobbin from that wheel.   Thomas  replied on my blog:  I think s...

Last week I decided that I wanted to go to Amsterdam for the day on Saturday. Almost a year ago I was there for the last time. It was about time to go I felt. During my life with Bram, we often went there. He has lived there many years and knew the city very well.  Thanks to him I also know it well. We just loved to got there.  When he was in good health, we used to go there at least once a Month. Saturdays filled with visits to a Museum, Art Galleries, Shopping, a nice lunch and coffee or tea at our favorite spots. Or waking up on Sunday-morning and deciding to go, because a day in Deventer would be boring,and there was a good exhibition to go in the Modern Art Museum. So a good reason to go, and off we went. I was just thinking that my knowledge of Art and my interest in it,has started in Amsterdam. In a way I am grown up in the World of Art there.  Don't know where it came from, because I am totally not brought up with Art. Guess a little fire had been...