That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 15, 2018

There were times Matilda wished she had taken typing instead in high school.

Mary, stuck in the attic, writing up menus for a Chinese restaurant. Only 499 more to go.

The Lady of Shalott

Poem by Lord Tennyson,

Sung by Loreena Mckennitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-kp6RDl94

Several paintings on the subject, inspired by Tennyson.

John William Waterhouse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)#/media/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Projectedit.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)#/media/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-I_am_half-sick_of_shadows,_said_the_lady_ofshalott.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)#/media/File:The_Lady_of_Shallot_Looking_at_Lancelot.jpg

William Holman Hunt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holman_Hunt#/media/File:Holman-Hunt,William,and_Hughes,Edward_Robert_-_The_Lady_ofShalott-1905.jpg

more:https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sidney-harold-meteyard-motionage-designs.html

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-lady-of-shalott-william-maw-egley.html

Mary just realized that, for the last twenty minutes, the thread has been coming from the front of her dress.

Looking in at the studio of Georgia Dunn’s (“Breaking Cat News“) medieval ancestor.

Monitoring Jacquard loom pattern cards for pornographic content was boring, but it was a living.

Realising you reversed two colours some time back…

“Dream Weaver I believe you can get me thru the night”

It’s hard to concentrate with a deadline looming…

Looms have ink?

Yeah, Doc she sits like that all the time; says she listening to her player piano.

Pioneering cartoonist Lady Larksalot, developer of the three-panel strip, here shown in her “Aha!” moment as she conceives the concept of the ‘speech bubble’. This was followed by several months of depression until she decided she didn’t have to go back and add them to all her previous work.

Ann Cuddy preparing to sit for her portrait.

No. I don’t think so. That is another entirely different look. She appears to be.. satisfied.

“I think I’m starting to need glasses.”

In the castle’s dreariest room/ the Lady sits, trapped at the loom/ and quite unaware/ that somewhere out there/ Lord Tennyson conjures her doom.

This is, as several have pointed out, the Lady of Shalott. The artist seems to have used the same model for Penelope, from The Odyssey. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JohnWilliamWaterhouse-PenelopeandtheSuitors(1912).jpg.

One stitch out of place and now I have to start over!

“The coach was right. It DOES help if you stop weaving intricate tapestries at least once an hour and stretch out those arm muscles!”

The artist had to change just about everything in the painting when the sponsor said he liked the girl but that his wife would never go for a nude over the mantle piece.

Oh blast, why didn’t I join the sewing circle at Castle Anthrax when I had the chance?

PreRaphaelites must have used many of the same models….so many same likenesses in their paintings…

Newspaper illustration, the early days.

Looms use ink? Who knew …

“I am half sick of shadows,” said the Lady of Shalott: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_I_am_half-sick_of_shadows,_said_the_lady_of_shalott.JPG 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly B1 paper size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/waterhouse_john_william.html 

http://totallyhistory.com/john-william-waterhouse/ 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/waterhouse1.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-william-waterhouse 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/w/waterhou/biograph.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Waterhouse_John_William.html 

https://www.jwwaterhouse.net/biography/ 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/79 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/jww/index.html 

http://hoocher.com/j_w_waterhouse/john_william_waterhouse.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 10 works by him have been used here (11 times, including a Classic repeat). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/05/18?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included one of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2082 (November 14, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“One day, all of this will be done by machine.”

24 hour Wal-Mart to the rescue

Opal: while dreaming of her next vacation t Ibiza is weaving herself a bikini.

The Lady is still confined in her tower, weaving a tapestry, viewing the world outside only through reflections in the mirror behind her. In the painting, the mirror reveals a bridge over a river leading to the walls and towers of Camelot; also visible nearby are a man and a woman, perhaps the “two young lovers lately wed” referred to in Tennyson’s poem. The scene is set shortly before an image of Lancelot appears in the mirror, enticing the Lady out of her tower to her death.

The painting shows the Lady of Shalott resting from her weaving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Half-Sick_of_Shadows,_Said_the_Lady_of_Shalott

“This exercise program is bogus! I’ve been following these instructions for 3 months now, but I still don’t have “D” cups."

Erica conceives the stained glass window.

…..more accurate to say, “That Look When Your Loom Runs Out Of Thread and Hobby Lobby Closed Five Minutes Ago”…..