Monday, November 26, 2018

The Stepmother

The stepmother in this tale makes a living as an illuminator and an emboiderer in the year 801 in Wessex. She lives near the cathedral of Winchester. In the picture she is working at an emboridery frame with the piece she is working on sewn to the frame. It enables the work to sit before her in the same way that an artist's work is propped on an easel.

Cynethrith's stepmother, Waldberg, a character in  Courting Trouble
[My stepmother] was sitting behind an embroidery frame, working gold thread onto a fabric strip for the bishop’s vestment. Her two daughters were with her. Hilda was standing near my stepmother reciting, with more feeling than required, a poem about the crumbling remains of a once magnificent city that had been built by giants.

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