Antimacassar

Photos taken inside the Hobart Historical Society museum.

Here we have a luxury item: an upholstered reclining rocker.


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This is on display without comment, so I don't know how old it is. Nor do I know to whom it belonged — but I'm guessing someone in comfortable circumstances.

You all know the history of the term antimacassar, don't you? This one looks so delicate that I wonder how they laundered it. But even buying a new antimacassar was less expensive than having the chair reupholstered.




And now for some low-rent artsiness! Here I just messed with the brightness and contrast.



This is an "effect" from Paint.NET called "polar inversion":



It's a great tool for procrastination.