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Figure [113] is a type of the elaborately upholstered bed of the Pompadour period and contains much that is graceful and applicable to present-day decoration, the entire canopy arrangement being worthy of reproduction in toto.
While it is not customary at present to upholster beds (head-board, foot and side-rails), except for purposes of exact reproduction, it would not be amiss to explain in passing the steps taken in producing the different styles of tufting shown in our illustrations.
The biscuit tufting of Figure [113] is usually made small and shallow as compared with other styles, the squares composing the tuft seldom running larger than two inches. To mark off the surface of the article for tufting find the centre each way and draw lines as dotted lines 1——1, 2——2, Figure [113A], being careful to make them perfectly perpendicular and horizontal, as governed by the outline of the space to be tufted. Measuring from the centre lines draw other lines every three inches until you reach to within three inches of the outline of the space, thus dividing the surface into three-inch squares, as dotted lines, Figure [113A]. Rule diagonal lines, as A, B, C, to cut through the intersections of the dotted lines, and make these diagonal lines sufficiently heavy to be legible when tufting, as the smaller squares enclosed by the diagonal lines outline the size of the tufts and the intersection of the diagonals mark the points for the buttons. (See Figure [113B].) When all the lines have been drawn the article is ready for tufting, but the cover must also be marked for buttoning before it can be applied with any degree of success.
To ascertain the size of the covering needed, count the number of squares diagonally from one extremity to the other, thus from C to C, Figure [113A], numbers ten squares, and ten also from A to A; now take the size of the dotted line squares first marked on Figure [113A] (three inches), and multiply the number of diagonal squares by the size of the dotted squares, which gives us the size of the covering as 30 x 30 inches; add an inch all around for tacking, and a piece of covering 32 × 32 will be the size required.
Fig 113
Fig 113A
