Roping a 19th-Century Bed: A Behind-the-Scenes Time Lapse скачать в хорошем качестве

Roping a 19th-Century Bed: A Behind-the-Scenes Time Lapse

Join Rebecca Beall and Jean Contino for a look at how one would rope and make a bed in early 19th-century New England. This bed is currently located upstairs in the Fenno House, which has recently re-opened to the public! About the Fenno House: The Fenno House textile exhibit explores cloth making in early New England. By the early 19th century, machine-woven cloth from Britain and New England’s own textile factories were eliminating demand for traditional handspun and hand-woven products. But some spinning wheels were still in use, and a number of handloom weavers continued to find custom work making blankets, coverlets, and cloth. The Fenno House is the oldest building at Old Sturbridge Village. For more than 100 years, the house had been dated to 1704. In 2006, however, the Village conducted a study of the tree-rings on the timbers used to construct the house and discovered that the wood had been cut down in 1724. This fact also aligns with the decorative details found inside the house.