tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post3321546351605785035..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: Bed Time, Eighteenth Century StyleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-66512134815710571272018-10-07T11:25:39.292-04:002018-10-07T11:25:39.292-04:00Absolutely fascinating story. I especially loved ...Absolutely fascinating story. I especially loved the pictures. But on the matter of height, I remember reading that Charles II was considered way taller than the average man, at 6'1"--which is my height, by the way. In my case, where I came from (in South America) I was mocked and ridiculed for my height, which was so much more than the average woman. (I took advantage of it and became a model, lol!)<br />Love your webside! Emilia Rosahttps://www.custommade.com/by/fashionedbyme/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-38735296556329689812015-12-07T01:18:54.156-05:002015-12-07T01:18:54.156-05:00My Grandparents have a really old four poster cano...My Grandparents have a really old four poster canopy bed. My Grandfather passed away not long ago. I should've asked how old that bed is. It's got a solid build but it's really, really old. I was just looking up 18th century mattresses and this post made me wonder just how old is that bed? The house it's in is from the early 18th century and has some oddities because it's an old farm. Like a round house with the old round pole bit for the rope and millstone. And freaky looking tools kept in the old barn. Are you sure that was for farming and not some cruel form of torture? <br /><br />I'd ask my Grandmother but she's a bit dozy. Sweet but I suspect it's not age, she was extremely pretty in old pictures but I don't think she was ever really 'with it'. I've always wondered with how old they were, if they were a good example of how relationships were in the olden days. My grandfather would make my grandmother a cup of tea and bring it to her in bed. Said she's not a morning person. Everything else was him building, mending, farming and her cooking, cleaning, washing. Now that he's gone, she is notably absent at breakfast. <br /><br />I found them fascinating growing up. My grandparents on the farm and my two great-grandmother's were from a different world. As a millennial with living relatives from the first world war and the second world war (three from a remote English village), they were more foreign than the two Nigerian kids at school. They had customs and mannerisms and traditions and vocabularies and belongings that I didn't know what to make of. I was the only kid that would not stop asking questions. How could I not ask them questions? Old people were always the weirdest people you can meet. <br /><br />Anyway, thanks for posting about the beds. Started a whole line of thought you probably didn't need to hear about. LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-70748881904207159262011-06-12T07:45:27.545-04:002011-06-12T07:45:27.545-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ALI SAPTONOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908355296562866073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-57778110644256088462010-06-27T22:32:44.427-04:002010-06-27T22:32:44.427-04:00I'm late to this party, and loved the post---i...I'm late to this party, and loved the post---in fact love all your posts---but did want to add my two cents to the historical myth question. When I took over the board presidency of the Jonathan Fisher House Museum in Maine, we had one docent, a volunteer, who inserted ever damned one of those myths ever known into his tours---the short beds, the Christian doors, the Holy Lord hinges, and my particular bete noir, that the family's coin silver was made from coins melted down as a way of preserving their wealth, and a dozen more that I can't think of at the moment. When the time came, after much research, to institute a new tour, he flatly refused to remove these cherished chestnuts from his tours. The punchline? He was a high school history teacher in his professional life.The Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-22831257553475622632010-06-26T05:37:31.882-04:002010-06-26T05:37:31.882-04:00I have got to go see Calke Abbey next time I visit...I have got to go see Calke Abbey next time I visit England! That Bed would draw me alone...such a perfect condition. I have slept in early 1800's rope beds and unfortunately I do not adjust well in fact I almost became sea sick. Every time you turn the bed swings out to the right or left! The make of the Bed determines how solid it is and the Abbey eighteenth century bed looks quite heavy so this same problem would not occur. The canopy and the mattress would add even more weight thank goodness.Historical Reminiscing with Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08160083437421085259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-67332653898375535272010-06-23T07:13:37.835-04:002010-06-23T07:13:37.835-04:00Here's the link to Calke Abbey and the Chinese...Here's the link to Calke Abbey and the Chinese bed that Chris mentions:<br /><br />http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-calkeabbey/w-calkeabbey-abbey.htm<br /><br />And another of the hangings:<br /><br />http://stylecourt.blogspot.com/2010/02/chinese-textiles-at-calke.html<br /><br />Calke Abbey is new to me -- what a wild place! If ever there was a house suggesting eccentric characters...Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997375216314200469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-62842322904232280422010-06-23T07:02:02.896-04:002010-06-23T07:02:02.896-04:00There is something undeniably romantic about an an...There is something undeniably romantic about an antique bed! Maybe dreams of the past come a little bit more easily in one?<br /><br />As for bed bugs- there's no doubt they were a problem in inns and other "public" beds, but a good 18th c. housewife or housekeeper was vigilant in keeping her beds sweet-smelling and vermin free. Nor are bed bugs an antique problem. I've read that they're once again on the rise in modern hotels.Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997375216314200469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-42987537953521917942010-06-22T18:56:28.246-04:002010-06-22T18:56:28.246-04:00Love the article and picture of the lavish bedstea...Love the article and picture of the lavish bedstead. I for one along with my husband have slept on a 3/4 size rope bed for most of our marriage. (That is smaller that a standard bed but bigger than a twin) I must confess that even though we had the bed roped we did have a modern mattress made to fit the antique bed. There is something almost magical,and getting used to, turning over in a rope bed and hearing the ropes groan. Got to luv it!<br /><br />DonnaFinegan Antiqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07134589341726766780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-21973516246173705892010-06-22T17:40:34.207-04:002010-06-22T17:40:34.207-04:00Very interesting post--I've never seen a cutaw...Very interesting post--I've never seen a cutaway presentation like that. 90 pounds? That's a lot of waterfowl! There's an excellent book on the history of bed hangings called, oddly enough BED HANGINGS. A Treatise on Fabrics and Styles in the Curtaining of Beds, 1650-1850 by Abbott Lowell Cummings with an Essay By Nina Fletcher Little. Lots of interesting pictures and textiles. My favorite bed is the embroidered Chinese bed at Calke Abbey--when the National Trust took over, they found it in a box, unused and fresh as the day it was made. They had to put it up in a staff room instead of a bedroom as none of the ceilings were high enough to accomodate it.Chris Woodyardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-17070800362068347292010-06-22T08:34:54.136-04:002010-06-22T08:34:54.136-04:00Antique beds are soooo romantic, but I keep thinki...Antique beds are soooo romantic, but I keep thinking about the bedbugs, ugh.Diananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-33647891743038177602010-06-22T07:11:07.979-04:002010-06-22T07:11:07.979-04:00I always wanted a canopy bed like this! Looks comf...I always wanted a canopy bed like this! Looks comfy to me even with that straw mattress.Emma Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533674631324192458noreply@blogger.com