{"id":312,"date":"2010-10-23T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2010-10-23T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T18:09:00","slug":"ruths-doily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Ruth&#8217;s Doily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TL_HULQWoHI\/AAAAAAAAJnU\/k8btoT0RpYI\/s1600\/DSC06219.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TL_HULQWoHI\/AAAAAAAAJnU\/k8btoT0RpYI\/s320\/DSC06219.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530358016866951282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Doily- an ornamental mat, originally the name of a fabric named after a 17<\/span><span>th<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> century London draper.  It originally meant &#8216;genteel, affordable woolens&#8217;.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Often crocheted or knit with open work  that reveals underlying objects.  Although decorative they also have  the purpose of protecting wood furniture from scratches caused by decorative objects place atop it.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The  above doily is not the typical round crochet type.  It is rectangular  and only crochet on the edges.  Otherwise it is most appealing and  decorative because of the embroidery.  This cloth not only adds a flare  of tradition to my sitting room because it is an old fashioned doily but  also because it was crocheted and embroidered by my great great aunt  (my grandmothers aunt).  I had it sitting in a box of linens for a long  time, waiting for the right spot for it.  The day I found it again and  placed it in my sitting room I was amazed at how cheerful it is and how  much it makes me think of Aunt Ruth.<\/p>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doily- an ornamental mat, originally the name of a fabric named after a 17th century London draper. It originally meant &#8216;genteel, affordable woolens&#8217;. Often crocheted or knit with open work that reveals underlying objects. Although decorative they also have the purpose of protecting wood furniture from scratches caused by decorative objects place atop it. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}