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Bachelor's Chest
- small scale chest with drawers or doors.
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Bail - reverse arch handle or drawer pull hanging downward from pins attached to
a backplane.
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Bamboo Turning
- a wood turning to simulate natural bamboo that originated during the 18th
Century.
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Beading
- classic ornamentation using small, half-round molding.
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Bentwood - wood softened by steam for bending into curved shapes.
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Bergére - a French armchair with closed upholstered sides and back.
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Bombé - a surface that swells outward; typical of French chests and commodes of
Louis XV.
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BouIle
- a French cabinetmaker who developed a special inlay technique called
Boulle Work, utilizing tortoise shell,
silver, brass or pewter. A sheet of metal and a sheet of tortoise
were glued together, and a design was cut out of
both at the same time. The cut-out piece of one material was then
reinserted into a corresponding opening in the
other material.
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Bracket Foot - right angled foot, with each inner end curved.
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Buffet
- French term that refers to a sideboard for china, silver, linens, with a
top surface used as serving counter.
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Bunching
- Furniture pieces that fit flush with each other to create unified wall
arrangements.
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Bun Foot - a foot that resembles a slightly flattened ball.
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Bureau
- low chest of drawers usually for a bedroom, often with a mirror,
originally a desk or table with drawers.
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Burl -
beautiful mottled veneer, produced by slicing cross-sections of abnormal
tree growths.
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Deck - the surface directly under the cushions of an upholstered chair or sofa.
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Director's Chair - named for its long use by Hollywood directors, a folding armchair with
sling seat and back.
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Distressing - a treatment sometimes called antiquing, designed to make new woods look
old by means of markings.
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Drape
- the way a fabric hangs; this influences its ability to shape well,
particularly in an upholstery skirt.
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Drawer Guide - strip of wood, plastic or metal under a drawer that serves as a guiding
track for opening & closing.
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Dresser - from the French term, dressoir, originally a table used to dress meats
that evolved into a cupboard for
utensils and dishes. in the United States, the word describes a
chest of drawers with a mirror.
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Dry Sink
- a low, Early American two-door cupboard with a sink or with an open top
lined with zinc or copper.
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Figure
- the pattern or design in wood created by the growth of the tree; abnormal
growths produce unusual
figures.
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Finial
- terminal decoration used on upright posts, often of metal.
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Flitch -
any part of the log which is sliced into veneer.
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Fluting
- parallel channels, usually cut vertically; used for columns and legs.
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Hand
- the way a fabric feels, refers to its resilience, drapability and
flexibility.
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Hardwood - a general term for wood from broadleafed trees.
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Highboy - very high chest of drawers, taking its name from "haut bois" meaning "high
wood" in French.
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Ladder Back
- back posts joined by horizontal cross-rails in ladder effect. Also called
Slat Back.
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Laminate
- the process of bonding or gluing together layers; the final product may
also be referred to as a laminate.
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Linenfold
- a carved motif that looks like a scroll of linen.
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Low Relief - a form of decoration in which the design is only slightly raised from the
surface.
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Natural Fibers - all fibers that occur in fiber form in nature.
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Nesting Tables
- set of occasional tables, in graduating sizes so that one slides under
another.
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Patina - soft, mellow color and texture of a wood surface resulting from age, wear
or rubbing.
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Pedestal Table - top supported by one or more heavy, wide-based columns.
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Pie Crust Table - a small table with carved or molded scalloped edges.
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Pile
- a fabric with a surface of upright ends, cut or looped, like velvet.
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Rosewood
- cross-grains solid wood is known as Rosewood.
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Scroll - spiral-shaped ornamentation.
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Secretary
- combination slant front desk and bookcase.
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Serpentine Front
- chest, dresser, etc., with undulating front surfaces.
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Settee
- the forerunner of today's sofa, a long seat with side arms and back,
sometimes upholstered.
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Slub
- a thick, uneven nub in yarn for a textured effect.
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Sofa Table
- a long table as tall as the sofa to place behind it.
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Softwood - a general term for the wood of trees that remain green all year.
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Spade Foot - rectangular, tapered Foot separated from the rest of the leg by a slight
projection.
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Stacking Furniture
- pieces designed so they work together and can be super-imposed on each
other for unified
wall systems.
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Stretcher
- crosspiece connecting and bracing legs of tables, chairs, chests, etc.
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Strié
- a streaked or striped effect produced with yarns of varying tones.
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Synthetic Fibers
- manufactured fibers resulting from chemical synthesis.
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Welt
- a strip of fabric, resembling a cord, sewn between two pieces of
upholstery fabric to give a more finished
appearance to the seam; usually made by covering a cord with a tube
of fabric.
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Windsor Chair
- a country-style chair with a solid, shaped seat connected to the legs and
chair back with round or
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