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Refer to "Huswifery"
The
spinning wheel spun fibers into yarn
Spinning
Wheel (with a foot treadle to turn the wheel)
The Distaff (upper
left) holds the fibers to be spun into yarn.
The fiber is caught on
one of the Flyer's (the U-shaped "fork") hooks, which winds it around
the Spool.
The reel (on the
"seat") receives the finished yarn.
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Earlier
type spinning wheel: The wheel is turned by hand to turn the spool
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A hand loom:
Refer
to "Huswifery"
The
"quills" are the spools of the loom.
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The
Web is the fabric formed from the weaving process
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Knot
Garden design: a garden in the shape of a "knot"
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Refer
to "On Wedlock and the Death of Children"
"A Curious Knot God
made in Paradise.../and set with all the flowres of Graces dress...
The Slips here planted,
gay and glorious grow.../Here Primrose, Cowslips, Roses, Lilies
blow,/With Violets and
Pinkes that voide perfumes."
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Refer
to the Preface to God's
Determinations
Who Lac'd and Filleted
the earth so fine,
With Rivers like green
Ribbons Smaragdine?
Who made the seas its
Selvedge...?
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Angel
coin. St. Micheal is pictured
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Angel
Coin
Refer
to Meditation 6, First Series, Preparatory Meditations
If thy bright Image do
upon me stand
I am a Golden Angell in
thy hand.
Lord, make my Soule thy
Plate: thine Image bright
Within the Circle of
the same enfoil.
And on its brim in
golden Letters write
Thy Superscription in
an Holy Style...
Let me thy Angell be....
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American
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