Taste and Lifestyle
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The Place of Crochet in the Front Room
Coded in that room are these bourgeois moral values about respectability, propriety and decorum. You also have the religious images, like the Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's reproduction. And on every surface in the front room, you would have crochet doilies, including on the back of sofas. Those are antimacasses, which goes back to the Victorian era,. Because the front room is the Victorian parlor, isn't it?
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