Bed hangings
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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
Colonial Williamsburg bed with a set of bed hangings
British bed curtain panel, wool thread on wool plain-weave fabric, early 18th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Allegory of Sight, by Abraham Bosse, instead of rails and rings, the fixed bed curtains have cords to tie them up
Queen's bedroom, Château de Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France
Crewel embroidery
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Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery worked in wool. A wide variety of different embroidery stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. The techniq
Fanciful leaf in crewelwork, detail of a curtain, English, c. 1696. Victoria and Albert Museum T.166-1961.
Embroidered cushion cover, 1601, British (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Hanoverian period (c. 1740) crewelwork detail highlighting carnation