The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC Size:XXL: 127 x 100cm 31st December 1993

31st December 1993

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The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC Size:XXL: 127 x 100cm 31st December 1993The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC (1930). Penelope with her son, Telemachus. A scene from the Odyssey. While waiting for the return of her missing husband, Odysseus, Penelope delayed various suitors, claiming that she had first to finish weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father, Laertes. Every night she would unpick the shroud, meaning that the task would never be finished. A print from A History of Tapestry,