Beds and Bed Treatments
The complete dressing of beds involves both the soft furnishing and the upholstery departments.
The Upholstery department undertakes the making of mattresses and bolsters, the making and covering of coronas, supply or recovering of bedheads or in the case of early 18th century four poster beds the applying of material to all the visible timberwork, namely the Georgian bed at Hampton Court and the Handel House bed, Illustrated below.
The Soft Furnishing department has the task of making bedspreads of differing styles, bed valances, bolster covers and in addition for four poster beds, the inner and outer valances often ornately trimmed, the bed curtains, coverlet and base valances
The refurbished Chippendale
bed at Harewood House.
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The Chippendale bedstock with mock up soft furnishings erected in our premises before gilding by Carvers and Gilders Jump Now
Mock-up of 18th century style festoon valance showing the drawing template for carving the missing wooden swags.
The dome of the bed before gilding and covering with green silk damask
Lining the inside of the dome
Lining
the outside of the dome
The completed exterior of the dome.
Close up of the festoon valance with the carved swags.
Close
up of the dome complete with gilded vases, cornice and enrichments.
Damask covered bed tester complete with gilded enrichment.