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  2. Bed - Wikipedia

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    Temporary beds include the inflatable air mattress and the folding camp cot. Some beds contain neither a padded mattress nor a bed frame, such as the hammock. Other beds are made specifically for animals. Beds may have a headboard for resting against, and may have side rails and footboards. "Headboard only" beds may incorporate a "dust ruffle ...

  3. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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    Although there were beds in Sumeria, most people slept on the floor rather than beds. [8] The Sumerian bed was a wooden bed on a wooden frame. The bed frame was a tall head-board decorated with pictures of birds and flowers. [9] Sometimes the bed's leg would be inlaid with precious metals and shaped to look like animal's paws. [2]

  4. Mattress - Wikipedia

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    Mattress fabrics can be knits, damask or printed wovens, or inexpensive non-wovens. During the past decade, along with the rise in popularity of all-foam beds, stretchy knit ticking on the bed's top panel has become a standard look on both innerspring and foam beds. Most ticking is made with polyester yarns.

  5. Domestic furnishing in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    A wooden close bed or box-bed was an "essay" or apprentice piece for an Edinburgh wright in 1683, [34] and such beds remained a feature of a range of Scottish homes into the 19th-century. [ 35 ] A "laich" or low bed had no canopy or posts, and some laich beds could be tucked away under a larger bed.

  6. Box-bed - Wikipedia

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    Box-bed in Austria. A small box-bed (also known as a closed bed, close bed, or enclosed bed; less commonly, shut-bed [1]) is an enclosed bed made to look like a cupboard, half-opened or not. The form originates in western European late medieval furniture. The box-bed is closed on all sides by panels of wood.

  7. Pallet (furniture) - Wikipedia

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    A pallet is a bed made of straw or hay, used in medieval times. Close to the ground, it was generally a linen or some other material sheet stretched over some hay or straw. The mattress might be called a palliasse, or sometimes pallet, based on the French word for straw: paille. The name palliasse applies particularly to a mattress used on its ...

  8. Waterbed - Wikipedia

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    It looks like a conventional bed and is designed to fit existing bedroom furniture. The platform usually looks like a conventional foundation or box spring, and sits atop a reinforced metal frame. Early waterbed mattresses, and many inexpensive modern mattresses, have a single water chamber.

  9. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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    Bed hangings, also known as bed "furniture," were used from medieval times [1] through the 19th century, though their popularity waned from the mid 1700s. Bed hangings proved useful for several reasons. The master bed was often located in the parlor, and the hangings provided privacy. Other beds may have occupied the hall and kitchen, as well ...

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