This old photograph taken at the beginning of the twentieth century illustrates a scene that was repeated many times during the preparation of the marriage trousseau. The young girl cards the wool that her mother is spinning directly on her spinning-wheel, then it is wound on the reel.
Sometimes the entire family went to work to provide the trousseau of the "bride of springtime".
Dimensions: 26.5 cm X 17.3 cm.
Origin: RiviΦre-du-Loup, QuΘbec.
Courtesy: MusΘe d'archΘologie de l'Est du QuΘbec RiviΦre-du-Loup