Artist: Gervasius Fabricius
Book: Album Amicorum (Book of friends)
Date: 1613
Nationality: Salzburg, Austria
Pillow: domed, round, tilted at an angle, on a stand or a desk
Bobbins: with a bulb on end, hanging off pillow, not many of them
Comments: This shows a number of women doing different crafts in a garden. The woman on the left (with her back to us) is working bobbin lace. The lace shown looks more like Punto in Aria, an Italian needlepoint, made in an entirely different way. Still, perhaps the painter did not know about bobbin lace and was painting from memory.
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