The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC mb-code BK004572 x900 and x40

x900 and x40

With a description beneath and the title on a ribbon in the sky

denoting his role as Lord Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal

The Revolutionary

The Loom of Penelope, from the Chuisi Vase, Etruscan, c400 BC mb-code BK004572 x900 and x40The 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,