Meeting of Saint Margaret and the Prefect Olibrius by Jean Fouquet. 1452 -60 for Étienne Chevalier. A common image in medieval manuscripts is a woman spinning while standing, often the lady is depicted spinning wool amongst sheep.
A textile is a fibrous substance, such as wool, cotton, flax, or silk, that can be spun into yarn & woven or knitted into cloth. Stone Age peoples wove nets, baskets, mats, & belts out of reeds, grasses, & strips of animal hides - and this eventually led to the creation of fabrics to substitute for the animal skins which often served as human clothing. Ancient textiles were made mostly of linen, cotton, wool, & silk. Spinning & weaving were mentioned in the Bible.
From Exodus 35:25 Every skilled woman spun with her hands & brought ...... All the women who were skilled in sewing & spinning prepared blue, purple, & scarlet thread, & fine linen cloth...
From Proverbs 31:19 In her hand she holds the distaff...Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber. ... She extends her hands to the spinning staff, & her hands hold the spindle...
As civilizations developed, the people, the fibers, & the different methods tools invented for turning the fibers into cloth traveled to different parts of the world, & many ideas on making textiles were exchanged among various peoples. Spinning is the simple process of drawing out a twisting of a few fibers together into a continuous length, & winding them into a ball or onto a stick. There is archaeological evidence to suggest that spinning was practiced in Europe at least as early as 20,000 years ago. In the early days of spinning, the drawing out & twisting of the fibers was done by hand; later the winding stick itself was modified by the addition of a weight, or whorl, at its lower end (which gave increased momentum). Thus a modified winding stick became the spinning implement, or hand spindle.
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Saturday, June 16, 2018
SUMMER Spin -Time to Head Outdoors to Spin & Tend the Chickens!
Woman carrying a distaff under her arm while feeding chickens. Luttrell Psalter, British Library, London 1300s England
Eons ago just as today, a textile was a fibrous substance, such as wool, cotton, flax, or silk, that can be spun into yarn & woven or knitted into cloth. Stone Age peoples wove nets, baskets, mats, & belts out of reeds, grasses, & strips of animal hides - and eventually led to the creation of fabrics to substitute for the animal skins which often served as human clothing. Ancient textiles were made mostly of linen, cotton, wool, & silk. Spinning & weaving were mentioned in the Bible.
From Exodus 35:25 Every skilled woman spun with her hands & brought ...... All the women who were skilled in sewing & spinning prepared blue, purple, & scarlet thread, & fine linen cloth...
From Proverbs 31:19 In her hand she holds the distaff...Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber. ... She extends her hands to the spinning staff, & her hands hold the spindle...
As civilizations developed, the people, the fibers, & the different methods tools invented for turning the fibers into cloth traveled to different parts of the world, & many ideas on making textiles were exchanged among various peoples. Spinning is the simple process of drawing out a twisting of a few fibers together into a continuous length, & winding them into a ball or onto a stick. There is archaeological evidence to suggest that spinning was practiced in Europe at least as early as 20,000 years ago. In the early days of spinning, the drawing out & twisting of the fibers was done by hand; later the winding stick itself was modified by the addition of a weight, or whorl, at its lower end (which gave increased momentum). Thus a modified winding stick became the spinning implement, or hand spindle.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Sewing outdoors - 19C Girls
Janet C Fisher (Welch artist, 1867–1926), In the orchard, c.1900.
Mary E Dear (English artist, 1848-1867) Patchwork 1857
John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) The Knitting Lesson
John Dawson Watson (British artist, 1832-1892)
William Frederick Witherington (British artist, 1785-1865) The Sewing Lesson
Charles Edward Wilson (British 1854-1941) Girl Sewing
Albert Edelfelt (Finnish artist, 1854-1905) A Girl Knitting Socks 1896
Monday, May 11, 2015
Interiors - Jean Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940 Staying Indoors
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Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Lucy Hessel Reading 1924
Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et- Loire); in 1878, his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father's death in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to the Lycée Condorcet where Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (an aspiring painter & Vuillard's future brother in law) & artist Maurice Denis. In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet. On the advice of his closest friend, Roussel, he refused a military career & joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. There, Roussel & Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. In 1887, after 3 unsuccessful attempts, Vuillard passed the entrance examination for the École des Beaux-Arts. I begin this survey with a later, atypical painting here, but I will try to follow his evolution as a painter chronologically from this point on.
1888 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard
1890 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Grandmother Michaud Seen against the Light
1890 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Marie Vuillard
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Flowered Dress
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Conversation
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) L'elegante
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman at her Toilette
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman in Black
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Green Interior 1891
1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) My Grandmother
1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Brushing a Garment
1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Under the Lamp or Two Women Under the Lamp Sous la lampe ou Deux Femmes sous la lampe. 1892.
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Cup of Coffee
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Seated
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Seated Woman Dressed in Black
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Young Woman in a Room Jeune femme dans une chambre. c 1892-93.
Edouard Vuillard, Interieur a la Table à Ouvrage, 1893
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) At Table 1893
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Linen Cupboard c 1893-95
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Old Woman in an Interior
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Yellow Curtain
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Two Women Drinking Coffee
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Linen Closet
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Little Restaurant
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Sitting by the Fireside
1895-1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Bonnard
1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Woman
1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) In Front of a Tapestry
1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The First Class Compartment
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Interior 1900-05
1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Annette Roussel with a Broken Chair
1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) After the Meal
1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Wife and Child
1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Hat
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Luncheon 1901
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Joseph and Lucie Hessel in Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli 1900-05
1902 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Interieur
1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Table Setting
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)) Le Salon de Madame Aron, from 1904
1905 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Sewing
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Vuillard in the Dining Room 1919-25
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mille Nathanson in the Artist's Studio 1912
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mother and Child 1900
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Arthur Fontaine
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Portrait of Claude Bernheirm de Villers 1906
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Woman Reading 1910
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Hessel on the Sofa, 1900
1912 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) A Child wearing Blue Overalls
1927 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) actress Jane Redouart
1932 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Countess Jean de Polignac
1889 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Self Portrait
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Lucy Hessel Reading 1924
Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et- Loire); in 1878, his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father's death in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to the Lycée Condorcet where Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (an aspiring painter & Vuillard's future brother in law) & artist Maurice Denis. In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet. On the advice of his closest friend, Roussel, he refused a military career & joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. There, Roussel & Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. In 1887, after 3 unsuccessful attempts, Vuillard passed the entrance examination for the École des Beaux-Arts. I begin this survey with a later, atypical painting here, but I will try to follow his evolution as a painter chronologically from this point on.
1888 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard
1890 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Grandmother Michaud Seen against the Light
1890 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Marie Vuillard
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Flowered Dress
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Conversation
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) L'elegante
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman at her Toilette
1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman in Black
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Green Interior 1891
1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) My Grandmother
1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Brushing a Garment
1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Under the Lamp or Two Women Under the Lamp Sous la lampe ou Deux Femmes sous la lampe. 1892.
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Cup of Coffee
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Seated
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Seated Woman Dressed in Black
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Young Woman in a Room Jeune femme dans une chambre. c 1892-93.
Edouard Vuillard, Interieur a la Table à Ouvrage, 1893
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) At Table 1893
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Linen Cupboard c 1893-95
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Old Woman in an Interior
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Yellow Curtain
1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Two Women Drinking Coffee
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Linen Closet
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Little Restaurant
1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Sitting by the Fireside
1895-1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Bonnard
1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Old Woman in front of the Fireplace
1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Cousant
1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) My Mother
1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast at Madame Vuillard's
1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Cup of Coffee
1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Woman
1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) In Front of a Tapestry
1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The First Class Compartment
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Interior 1900-05
1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Annette Roussel with a Broken Chair
1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) After the Meal
1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Wife and Child
1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Hat
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Luncheon 1901
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Joseph and Lucie Hessel in Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli 1900-05
1902 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Interieur
Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)) Le Salon de Madame Aron, from 1904
1905 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Sewing
1908 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman in Profile
1910 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with Black Eyebrows
1910 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Hat
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Vuillard in the Dining Room 1919-25
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mille Nathanson in the Artist's Studio 1912
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mother and Child 1900
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Arthur Fontaine
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Portrait of Claude Bernheirm de Villers 1906
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Woman Reading 1910
Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Hessel on the Sofa, 1900
1912 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) A Child wearing Blue Overalls
1927 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) actress Jane Redouart
1932 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Countess Jean de Polignac
1889 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Self Portrait
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