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The Spinners (The Fable of Arachne)

Diego Velázquez, 1657

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Up front, in shadow, five women run a spinning workshop: wool gets twisted into thread, yarn gets wound onto reels, the floor is littered with raw fleece.

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