Book Title: Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf : vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld en met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verryke / door Jan en Kasper Luiken

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Dyer

Scripture Reference:

• Isaiah 63 (further images / scripture text)

Description: The dyer lowers the cloth into a dye vat using a reel and crank. In the background, several workers rinse the dyed cloth in the canal. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing this emblem, Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Isaiah 63:2.

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Motto:
Commonness
Gives unity.

Poem:
Red blood from Jesus, beautiful color
Infuses our souls through and through,
So that we will please the eternal eye:
As the dyer’s liquid
Penetrates the pale woolen fabric,
Which appears as reborn.

(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)

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