Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 342
r, seem to lack bed screws, and were heldtogether merely by the tautness of the ropes. This bed has its originalsimple white canopy, and the tester is of one piece drawn over a frame, builton all sides like the old-fashioned curtain with rods run into the hem. Thiscanopy was carefully laundered and… … ABOVE is a slaw bed, otherwise^called ajirgss bed; that is to say, it wassometimes set into a shallow cupboard which was of the depth of the portionthat was intended to stand permanently on the floor. The lower part ofthe bed closed somewhat like a modern folding bed on the joints seen in…
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