there are several representations of them in the medieval illos showing women weaving, etc. I KNOW I saw them somewhere....perhaps the "Medieval Women" calendars? They got a great wheel and someone carding wool.

hey! I found one! its under the letter "K" in my Medieval Women address book (big help, eh? ). From Boccaccio's Des Cleres et nobles femmes. The Niddy Noddy is sitting in a box on the floor, holding a skein of yarn. Interestly the women are all wearing beige aprons (ie undyed linen?) as opposed to white!

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Originally posted by hauptfrau:
I don't have that book- is it coplanar or 3D?

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umm....I flunked geometry.
think a wooden shoebox,sitting on the floor. Sticking up out of the shoe box is a stick.
on the end of the stick are two Xs, like two sets of propellers. The Stick is perpendicular tothe floor, the Xs are horizontal to the floor. the Xs are juxtapositioned (ie not right on top of each other, but with their arms staggerd) Looks like one of those old freestanding clothes line gizmos my gramma had in her yard....

you can see the thread/yarn wound around it.
--AM

If you don't have a site, send the jpg to me and I'll have Jeff put it on our site and then upload it.

I'd like to see this picture myself.