Beds

Plans for the construction of a reproduction of an actual model removed from the 10th century Gokstad ship.

(Also at www.medievalwood.org/charles/bedplan.html )

Materials and construction of a rope bed. A longer version of this article is in the 9th edition of the Miscellany.

Link to a single image of a period bed with a rollaway underneath.

"A Period Rope Bed," "Building a Simple Period Table," and "Conjecturally Authentic Furniture."

A description of Elizabethan bed clothes as displayed on the Great Bed of Ware at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

This article compiles the notes and methods employed to create some heraldic bed hangings to enhance the aesthetics and functional ity of my medieval camping bed.

The notes and methods employed to create some heraldic bed hangings to enhance the aesthetics and functional ity of my medieval camping bed.

Illustrations of beds & bedding, as well as photos of extant beds.

Illustrations of infants' cradles from the 13th-16th centuries.

An ongoing site with articles & links on furniture as it applies to the Middle Ages & the SCA.

Are you tired of sleeping too close to the ground? Well, fear not, camper, for in the Modern Middle Ages, we have the ability to provide ourselves with something that our forebears might have considered an unheard of luxury -- a camp bed.

(Also at www.medievalwood.org/charles/bed.html )

A gallery of photos taken during a trip to the museum, including a folding table (1480-1500); casting molds; a brooch; some wooden combs; six candlesticks (14th-15th centuries); a clasp (13th century); belts (14th and 15th centuries); carvings in ivory and wood; a pig-face bascinet; a mail shirt; a 14th century dagger and some sword pommels; and a chest, stool, and bed at the Design Museum.