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Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word also refers to the materials used to upholster something. Upholstery comes from the Middle English word upholder, [1] which referred to an artisan who makes fabric furnishings. [2]
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user. A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to ...
The 1865 edition of Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language defines a dickie seat or rumble as "A boot [note 1] with a seat above it for servants, behind a carriage." [2] Similar to the dickie seat on European phaetons was the spider, a small single seat or bench on spindly supports for seating a groom or footman. [3]
Dick Vitale said he's cancer-free after his fourth bout with the disease in just over three years. The 85-year-old ESPN college basketball analyst announced Thursday on social media that he got ...
The Mexica people of the Aztec Empire did not mistake Hernán Cortés and his landing party for gods during Cortés' conquest of the empire. This notion came from Francisco López de Gómara , who never went to Mexico and concocted the myth while working for the retired Cortés in Spain years after the conquest.
You can wear a hundred looks on stage — but only 10 can make Chappell Roan's year-end ranking.. The "Red Wine Supernova" singer has posted a no-frills countdown of her own favorite ensembles ...
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The Bi-Autogo was a prototype American cyclecar, built from 1908 to 1912. [1] [2]Designed and built by Detroit artist & engineer James Scripps Booth, [3] it had the usual two wheels (wooden-spoked, 37 inches (940 mm)), plus two pairs of smaller, retractable outrigger wheels [4] in the three-seater body. [3]