Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 350
roying highposters, however, was fashion. We know of two ambitious young sisterswho went throughout their house, a great New England mansion, and sawedoff every high post bed, and there were many! The stuffiness incident to draperies about a high poster can be overcomeby the use of the airy, netted… … THE Picture is of a small bed with a handsome fish-net stitch canopy,in which there is a doubled border so that the points of the fringe show intwo lines. It was the early fashion to place such netted pieces over a muslinground, to exhibit the net more plainly. A bed draped like the one aboveis…
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