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  2. Cornrows - Wikipedia

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    The name cornrows refers to the layout of crops in corn and sugar cane fields in the Americas and Caribbean, [1] [6] where enslaved Africans were displaced during the Atlantic slave trade. [7] According to Black folklore, cornrows were often used to communicate on the Underground Railroad and by Benkos Biohó during his time as a slave in ...

  3. Settle (furniture) - Wikipedia

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    Few English examples of earlier date than the middle of the 16th century are extant; survivals from the Jacobean period are more numerous. Settles of the more expensive type were often elaborately carved or incised; others were divided into plain panels. They were commonly used in farmhouse kitchens or manorial halls. Its vogue did not long ...

  4. Shrewsbury Drapers Company - Wikipedia

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    After 1835 the Company retained ownership of Elizabethan Drapers Hall with its 17th century furniture and the almshouses. These were assigned to a charitable trust. By the end of the 19th century the company's role was simply the trustee of the almshouse buildings in Longden Coleham. In the late 1960s the Company agreed to take responsibility ...

  5. Gillows of Lancaster and London - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-18th century the firm was one of the leading cabinet-makers in Lancaster. [4] They had a reputation for manufacturing very high quality furniture. [1] [5] By the end of the 1700s most of the firm's partners were based in London. [6] The firm merged with a Liverpool firm in 1897 to form Waring & Gillow.

  6. Vitrine (historic furniture) - Wikipedia

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    Vitrines were a form of case furniture common from the 17th through the 19th centuries, which featured glass doors and windows used to display objects. [1] They were named for the vitreous glass material from which they were constructed. In French, vitrine can also refer to a contemporary display case with clear sides, or to an event or ...

  7. Furniture - Wikipedia

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    The earliest used seating furniture in the dynastic period was the stool, which was used throughout Egyptian society, from the royal family down to ordinary citizens. [19] Various different designs were used, including stools with four vertical legs, and others with crossed splayed legs; almost all had rectangular seats, however. [19]

  8. Stone workshops — used by craftsmen in the Middle Ages ...

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    The “town” is cited multiple times in historical documents between the 9th and 11th centuries and may have been in use as late as the 14th century, archaeologists said.

  9. American Empire style - Wikipedia

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    Other major furniture centers renowned for regional interpretations of the American Empire style were Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Many examples of American Empire cabinetmaking are characterized by antiquities-inspired carving, gilt-brass furniture mounts, and decorative inlays such as stamped-brass banding with egg-and-dart , diamond ...