Tapestry depicting girls in a row

An image of Woven textile. Girls in a Row. Tapestry depicting two rows of five women, placed above each other. Each row also contains an unidentified male figure. Weaving, wool, length, 5'11.1/8 ft, width, 4'3.7/8 ft, after 1601-before 1701. Production Note: This is an adaptation of the 'Wise and the Foolish Virgins' pattern (T.1-1945). Norwegian?

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Woven textile. Girls in a Row. Tapestry depicting two rows of five women, placed above each other. Each row also contains an unidentified male figure. Weaving, wool, length, 5'11.1/8 ft, width, 4'3.7/8 ft, after 1601-before 1701. Production Note: This is an adaptation of the 'Wise and the Foolish Virgins' pattern (T.1-1945). Norwegian?

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Accession Number: T.4-1945
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 762 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.02MB

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17th Century costume dress fashion female Fitz_AA hair headdress ladies lady Norwegian red rows ruff Scandinavian tapestry textile tiered tiers virgin weaving woman women wool woven

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