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Making Yarn From Wool

Making Yarn From Wool


‎This design on a Greek “lekythos,” a vessel of a shape often used for storing olive oil, shows a woman in an intermediate stage of making yarn from wool. She pulls the fibers from a basket called a “kalathos” and starts to orient them together into a rough strand. In a subsequent stage, she will spin the strand tightly and store it on a spindle. The spinning wheel wasn’t invented until the eleventh century A.D.
Exod 35:25–26, Prov 31:13, 19, 21, Isa 1:18, Ezek 34:3, Hos 2:5
‎Image by user Marsyas, from Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 2.5

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