Panphyla cueille les cocons ; elle élève des vers à soie ; elle file · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Panphyla cueille les cocons ; elle élève des vers à soie ; elle file
Subject: Pamphile; Loom; Weaving; Cotton
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Greece
Description: Pamphile was the first person thought to have worked with cotton. This included picking it, cleaning it, and weaving it for use. The image represents all three of these steps – Pamphile is seen picking the cotton, behind her the cotton is on a table and stool in the process of being cleaned, and to the far left the cotton is being weaved.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20024
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20024_OBJ.png