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2. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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   Bed hangings or bed curtains are fabric panels that surround a bed; they were used from medieval times through to the 19th century. Bed hangings provided privacy when the master or great bed was in a public room, such as the parlor. They also kept warmth in, and were a way of showing one's wealth. When bedrooms became more common in the mid ...

3. Oxburgh Hangings - Wikipedia

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   Oxburgh Hangings. Embroidery of "A Catte", worked by Mary, Queen of Scots, and now displayed at Holyrood Palace. The King's Room, Oxburgh Hall. The Oxburgh Hangings are needlework bed hangings that are held in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England, made by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, during the period of Mary's captivity in England. [ 1]

4. Baldachin - Wikipedia

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   Baldachins are often supported on columns, especially when they are disconnected from an enclosing wall. [1] A cloth of honour is a simpler cloth hanging vertically behind the throne, usually continuing to form a canopy. It can also be used for similar canopies in interior design, for example above beds, and for processional canopies used in ...

5. Canopy bed - Wikipedia

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   The canopy bed arose from a need for warmth and privacy in shared rooms without central heating. Private bedrooms where only one person slept were practically unknown in medieval and early modern Europe, as it was common for the wealthy and nobility to have servants and attendants who slept in the same room. Even in very modest homes, hanging a ...

6. Tush kyiz - Wikipedia

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   Tush kyiz. Tush kyiz (Kyrgyz: туш кийиз [tuʃ kijíz], туш — side, the edge, кийиз — felt; Kazakh: тұс киіз) are large, elaborately embroidered wall hangings, traditionally made in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan by women to commemorate the marriage of a son or daughter. [1] Colors and designs are chosen to symbolize Kyrgyz ...

7. Hanging coffins - Wikipedia

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   Hanging coffins in China are known in Mandarin as xuanguan (simplified Chinese: 悬 棺; traditional Chinese: 懸 棺; pinyin: xuán guān) which also means "hanging coffin". They are an ancient funeral custom of some ethnic minorities. The most famous hanging coffins are those which were made by the Bo people (now extinct) of Sichuan and Yunnan.