The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC Size:XL: 100 x 80cm The upper half shows an

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Map of London during the Saxon period

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Crystal Palace was the building for the Great Exhibition of 1851

the ground of Yorkshire Cricket Club in Leeds

The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC Size:XL: 100 x 80cm The upper half shows anThe 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,