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Bed hangings or bed curtains are fabric panels that surround a bed; they were used from medieval times through to the 19th century. Bed hangings provided privacy when the master or great bed was in a public room, such as the parlor , but also showed evidence of wealth when beds were located in areas of the home where .
Perpetuana was a woollen fabric made and used in early modern England and elsewhere for clothing and furnishings including bed hangings. It was lighter than broadcloth and resembled serge, some varieties had a glossy finish. [1] The name seems to advertise its long-lasting qualities. [2]
This 1782 bed rug is worked in shades of blue wool, and has a pile surface. [16] The second bed rug at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is from 1804, made by Lucy Williams Lathrop. The pile-surface rug is from Lebanon, CT, and features the same design as the 1796 bed rug in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Felt is used extensively in pianos; for example, piano hammers are made of wool felt around a wooden core. The density and springiness of the felt is a major part of what creates a piano's tone. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] As the felt becomes grooved and "packed" with use and age, the tone suffers. [ 43 ]
Mary's chapel bed of incarnate coloured damask was dismantled in 1566, and the fabrics and bed hangings were deployed on other beds named by their embroidered motifs; the Bed of Amity, the Bed of Phoenix, the green velvet bed with embroidery works or ouvraiges, and a smaller crimson velvet bed with "knots of love" known as the Lit de las ...
Harateen was a plain weave fabric manufactured with coarser weft than the warp yarns. Then undergoes a procedure of watering and stamping. The two layers of cloth were pressed together with a hot press.
Embroidery of "A Catte", worked by Mary, Queen of Scots, and now displayed at Holyrood Palace The King's Room, Oxburgh Hall. The Oxburgh Hangings are needlework bed hangings that are held in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England, made by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, during the period of Mary's captivity in England.
Sets of bed hangings embroidered in crewel wools were another characteristic product of the Stuart era. These were worked on a new fabric, a natural twill weave from Bruges with a linen warp and cotton weft. Crewel wools of the 17th century were firmly twisted unlike the soft wools sold under that name today, and were dyed in deep rich shades ...