Crochet doily

A crochet doily , also called napperon , is a crocheted doily and is intended to serve as an ornament .

It is often used as a base for decorative objects in home furnishings .

reception

Crochet doilies are often understood as the epitome of stuffy and kitsch .

The media and communication scientist Dagmar Hoffmann ( University of Siegen ) dealt in an article published in a specialist journal in 2013 with the online marketing of “self-made” and the “ contingency of the aesthetic ” in self-made products. They situate on online sites like Etsy numerous offered homemade Eierwärmer between "Häkeltischdeckchen and toilet roll hats " - "Design beside trash" [...] "in the midst of Oddities and trinkets ".

Web links

Wiktionary: crochet doilies - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

Commons : crochet doily - collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ spiegel.de: To get older means to become a philistine
↑ detail.de: Down with the crochet doilies
↑ sinaswelt.de: Decoration idea for the garden or the living room
↑ Dagmar Hoffmann: The Contingency of the Aesthetic and the Social Arrangements of Artists, Designers and Amateurs on the Net. In: Psychology and Social Criticism . Volume 37, Issue 2 (No. 146), 2013, ISSN 0170-0537 , pp. 91–112.

[1] spiegel.de: To get older means to become a philistine

[2] tail.de: Down with the crochet doilies

[3] sinaswelt.de: Decoration idea for the garden or the living room

[4] Dagmar Hoffmann: The Contingency of the Aesthetic and the Social Arrangements of Artists, Designers and Amateurs on the Net. In: Psychology and Social Criticism . Volume 37, Issue 2 (No. 146), 2013, ISSN 0170-0537 , pp. 91–112.