Tipsy Cattle, 1854

Woman spins hemp with distaff and munching cow, postcard. Bourbonnais, France early 1900’s   Tipsy Cattle Hemp a Narcotic – “For many years a prejudice existed against water-rotted hemp under the impression that the process caused disease among the cattle Read More …

Old Spinner, 1900’s

‘Old Spinner’ (vieille fileuse) postcard.  Bourbonnais, France  early 1900’s            

La Culture De Chanvre, early 20th century

‘The Cultivation of hemp’ (La Culture De Chanvre), photographed by F. Chapeau in  Behuard, France  photographed sometime between 1911-1955, postcard published late 50’s If you look real close you can just make out who I’m guessing to be his wife Read More …

Woman Eating Hemp, 18th Century

‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp),  by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)     oil on canvas     Watercolor with pen and ink       “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it Read More …

Women Breaking Hemp, 1893

‘Women Breaking Hemp’ photographed by Félix Arnaudin, print from a gelatin silver bromide negative.  Commensacq, France 1893  

Pigs Can’t Spin, pre1910

‘Spinners of the Distaff’ (Les Fileuses de Quenouilles), postcard showing women spinning hemp with pigs.  Tarn, France   pre1910  

Le Teilleur de Chanvre, 1910s

‘Le Teilleur de Chanvre’  (The Hemp Scutcher) postcard.  Bresse, France 1910’s        

Job Papier, 1894

‘Papier à cigarettes’ advertisement for Job rolling papers by Georges Meunier in 1894    

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