'Making the bed in later Stuart and Georgian England' in J Stobart & B Blonde (ed), Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century. Comparative perspectives from Western Europe

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Author(s) Pennell, Sara
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2014
Pages pp30-45
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Place Published Basingstoke

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Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Examines the 'material making and maintaining of the bed', including frame cord, mattress, linen, curtains, valences, etc, and its consumption by 17th and 18th century householders. Covers two central issues - 1] costs (in time and money) of the material assembling; 2] how the bed as a significant cost in many households resulted in a second hand bed and bedding trade and the importance of this in the processes of bed and bedding assembly/maintenance