Knitting Madonna detail from the Buxtehude Altar - Visit of the Angel, from the right wing

Title

Knitting Madonna detail from the Buxtehude Altar - Visit of the Angel, from the right wing

Subject

Craft

Description

Medieval Madonna knitting with double pointed needles.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art by Gerald W. R. Ward. (on Google Books)
Some 14th-century Italian paintings, and one by Master Bertram of Minden (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), depict the Virgin Mary knitting in the round with several needles and with several colors.”

Creator

Master Bertram also know as Meister Bertram and Master of Minden

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons

Date

1400-1410