This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...pillows, valances, and loose draperies, the last either covering the occupants of the bed or thrown over the bed itself, often in such a way as to perform the office of a valance. Three factors chiefly would seem to have determined the nature of the bed-furnishings in a given case: the styles prevalent at the time, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...pillows, valances, and loose draperies, the last either covering the occupants of the bed or thrown over the bed itself, often in such a way as to perform the office of a valance. Three factors chiefly would seem to have determined the nature of the bed-furnishings in a given case: the styles prevalent at the time, the sort of couch to be furnished, and the purpose for which it was to be used. All couches had for comfort a mattress or other covering over the interlacing and one or more pillows; those for sleeping were provided with various coverlets.2 The thickness of the mattress, however, the stuffs and patterns of the furnishings, and other details naturally varied at different periods.3 Draperies covering the couch and valances do not belong to the essential furnishings, and are accordingly often absent from the representations of couches. They were used either as luxurious accessories on very fine couches, or apparently to conceal rude or very plain structures,4 or possibly in some cases to hide the under surface of the interlacing. On a few of the Dipylon vases with prothesis scenes a covering which was over the top of the couch under the corpse is represented (see Fig. 1). It is of checked pattern in the few instances known.5 The large Corinthian craters (see 1 In the Homeric period skins and woolen bed-not clear just how the various draperies mentioned clothes were in use at night. Buchholz thinks that were disposed. Homeric beds had also mattresses and pillows, and 3 This is not, of course, to assert that there was perhaps linen coverlets in addition to those of wool. absolute uniformity at any one time. See Buchholz, Vol. II, Part II, pp. 157-161-4 s0 Professor Winter thinks in the case of a 2 The drapery of the occupants of banquet funerary couch...
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