- climates, a rope bed
would be
topped with one or more
insulating pail****es or
bedticks,
which would traditionally be
stuffed with straw, chaff, or down feathers...
- the bed as a
place to sit and as a step up onto the pile of bedclothes.
Bedticks were
often aired,
often by
hanging them outdoors, as
bedding is
still aired...
- cloths, handkerchiefs,
Turkish towels, fustians, nankeens,
cotton velvets,
bedticks, cambrics, drapers, hucks, damask, towels, &c. Also all
kinds of preparing...
-
homemade shield by
sewing thick strips of cork
between layers of "heavy
bedticking material". Out of a
concern for
spectators "roasting him for
being chicken-hearted"...
- Cossart. You have seen him
buttling with
frozen gravity and
punctilio of
bedtick vest in "Two for Tonight" and "Accent on Youth," and you will now see him...
