ABSTRACT
This chapter covers topics including mattress tickings, bed hangings, ottomans, cupboards, carpets, quilts and blankets and also gives extensive details of process, as well as material and colour selection. Upholstery is expensive because it is hard work, the shopkeeper has, therefore, to reward his workmen and women with liberal wages. A washed tick should always be waxed after washing, when it is thoroughly dry, or the feathers will escape, and the bed become impoverished in a short time. Good strong boxes are very useful, and one at least might be placed as an ottoman in most bedrooms: but before they can be ornamental as well as useful, it is necessary to make a cushion of some rough material to fit the top when the lid is down; and this may be nailed to the top of the box with tin tacks, one at each corner, to prevent it slipping when sat upon.
