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The Spider's Web Is Used to Trap Food
The biggest buyers for tapestries they're being restored, were the newly rich americans. The genital was cut out a is it serendipetis, or was it deliberate? There are trinkets and lockets on lhan. Those are markers of time, certain events where she went ore commemorated in that younow she has the cupping jars on the left of the wall,. She took care of he mother, who is quite ill er. So the spider was an ode to her mother. And you see the eggs in the belly of this large spider. But what you wanted to do is really make the web into architecture. Now the spider's web is used
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