Medieval & Renaissance illustrations and artifacts relating to weaving and looms. See also Early Narrow-ware Looms in Period Artwork and these links on weaving and looms.

• Allegory of the wisdom of God, Bible (BNF Grec 135, fol. 222v), 1361-1362

Also some Viking-age horn tablets: SHM 4683, SHM 5208

• Mural cycle showing the processing of silk and flax at the Kanonikerhaus in Constance, Germany, c. 1320: fingerloop braiding and weaving on a band loom
• Three queens spinning, weaving, and embroidering, Avis aus Roys (PML M.456, fol. 56r), c. 1340-1360
• Arachne (fol. 29) and Penelope (fol. 58), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598), beginning of the 15th century
• Arachne (fol. 30v) and Penelope (fol. 61v), De mulieribus claris (British Library, Royal 20 C. V), beginning of the 15th century
• Mary weaving in the Temple, a book of hours (KB 76 F 21, fol. 14r), c. 1400-1410
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.1004, fol. 17r), c. 1415-1430
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.453, fol. 24r), c. 1420-1435
• Annunciation, Pilgrimage of the Heart (BNF Fr. 376, fol. 116v), second quarter of the 15th century
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.453, fol. 30v), c. 1425-1430
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.64, fol. 21r), c. 1425-1435
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML 359, fol. 26v), c. 1430-1435
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (KB 135 J 50, fol. 14v), c. 1430-1450
• The Holy Family in the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves, 1440
• The Minyades scorn Bacchus, Ovid's Metamorphoses (BNF Fr. 137, fol. 42v), second half of the 15th century
• Annunciation, Vita Jesu Christi (BNF Fr. 181, fol. 10v), second half of the 15th century
• Annunciation, Festal Missal (KB 128 D 30, fol. 37r), c. 1460
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.1003, fol. 31r), c. 1460-1470
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.1001, fol. 18r), c. 1470-1480
• Italy, Secrets of Natural History (BNF Fr. 22971, fol. 38), c. 1480-1485
• Education of the Virgin, a book of hours (Bibl. Mazarine MS Faralicq 03, fol. 22), c. 1485-1495
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.197, fol. 18r), c. 1495-1505
• Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.156, fol. 146v), c. 1500
• Mary weaving, book of hours/prayerbook (MMW 10 F 14, fol. 88v), c. 1500-1525
• Mary at the loom from a fresco at the Church of St. Primus and Felicianus, Slovenia, 1504; detail shows her pattern-book

• Arachne boasts to Minerva about her weaving, The Epistle of Othea (KB 74 G 27, fol. 59v), c. 1450-1475
• Sardanapalus spins, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 288, fol. 232), second half of the 15th century
• Tapestry: The labors of wool, c. 1500

• Weavers (including a warp-weighted loom?), Reiner Musterbuch (ÖNB 507, fol. 2r), c. 1200-1220
• Mural cycle showing the processing of silk and flax at the Kanonikerhaus in Constance, Germany, c. 1320: a woman weaves while a child reels thread, silk-weaving (again, really more of a vertical loom)
• Weaving by Andrea Pisano, 1337-1342
• Naamah working at her loom, Egerton Genesis Picture Book (British Library, Egerton 1894, fol. 2v), c. 1360
• A weaver from a 14th century illustration at the Stadtbibliothek in Nuremburg (check out his feet!)
• Minerva (fol. 13) and Tanaquil (fol. 70v), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598), beginning of the 15th century
• Tanaquil, De mulieribus claris (British Library, Royal 20 C. V, fol. 75), beginning of the 15th century
• Tanaquil, De mulieribus claris (British Library, Royal 16 G. V, fol. 56), early 15th century
• Arachne scorns Minerva, Ovid's Metamorphoses (BNF Fr. 137, fol. 73v), second half of the 15th century
• Weaver, Journey to the Holy Land (ÖNB 2838, fol. 107r), 1476
• Detail from the Triumph of Minerva frescoes by Francesco del Cossa at Palazzo Schifanoia, c. 1476-1484
• Arachne at the loom, Ovid's Metamorphoses (British Library MS Royal 17 E. IV, fol. 87v), late 15th century
• Arachne at the loom, Ovid's Metamorphoses (British Library, Royal 17 E. IV, fol. 87v), late 15th century
• The Weaver in Das Standebuch, 1568
• A family of weavers by Jodocus van Winghe
• Penelope at the loom, late 16th century
• Weaver in a stained glass roundel from Sternberk, c. 1580-1600

• Rost, Kirchherr zu Sarnen, Manesse Codex (Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 285r), c. 1305-1340
• Weaver, Journey to the Holy Land (ÖNB 2838, fol. 107r), 1476