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A bleg.
There are plenty of pictures from the high and late Middle Ages, especially about the themes "Adam digging, Eve spinning", "Woman beating up her man" and the Annunciation. From early medieval context, however, I have not been able to find a single picture yet that clearly shows spinning procedure and technique.
One possible reason is that there are, overall, less pictures and illuminations from the Early MA, and there seem to be even less pictures of women from that time. But maybe I just haven't found it, and you happen to know it because a reprint of it graces your living space? I'd be delighted to get any hints about a spinning picture from before 1100!
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Must it be as late as the Middle Ages at all? Here is one from a Greek pottery piece:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_spinning#mediaviewer/File:Woman_spinning_BM_VaseD13.jpg
The caption (yes, I found it on Wikipedia; that's Google image search for you) reads:
"Woman spinning. Detail from an Ancient Greek Attic white-ground oinochoe, ca. 490 BC, from Locri, Italy. British Museum, London."
Cathy, thanks for the links! That is one of the quite early ones that originate in (Middle) Europe, as far as I've progressed in my search.
And yes, they have to be medieval, and preferably from Europe/Middle Europe. There's no problem at all in finding Greek spinners doing their thing - but the technique shown is different from the high/late medieval pictures.