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Picture No 10140041
Date 1868
Description ANTIMACASSAR - 1
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Antimacassar in Gobelin stitch, intended to protect furniture from the macassar oil widely used as hair dressing. It has become the archetypal Victorian symbol.
Source Plate by an unnamed artist in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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