Craft Gallery

Greek women at their household chores

Women occupied with sewing, spinning, and other household chores in ancient Greece.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Native American ceremonial figure with rain, fresco on a kiva interior wall, circa 1500, Tiguex (Kuaua Pueblo) on the Rio Grande, Coronado State Park in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
Digital photograph of a fresco wall painting

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Reenactors weaving on belt looms at a Revolutionary War reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia.
Digital photograph

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