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Weavers had a repertory of tales: in the 15th century Jean d'Arras, a Northern French tale-teller (trouvere), assembled a collection of stories entitled Les Évangiles des Quenouilles ("Spinners' Tales"). Its frame story is that these are narrated among a group of ladies at their spinning.
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