bedtick

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bedtick

(ˈbɛdˌtɪk)
n
(Furniture) a bag with the dimensions of a mattress, which is filled with stuffing such as feathers or straw for sleeping on
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In Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book, she noted that in the eighteenth century, "Busy Colonial housewives set to work to embroider 'quilts, coverlids, counterpins,' and 'bedticks' in crewel embroidery" (35)
Erica Wilson and the Quilt Revival
Elizabeth Williams bought tow and linen cloth from weaver Joseph Eldridge as well as Indian corn and buckwheat in the 1780s and 90s and paid him in part in cash and in part by spinning tow and yarn for bedticks; Joseph Eldridge, Account Books, 1788-1795, man.
The gender division of labor in the production of textiles in eighteenth-century, rural Pennsylvania (rethinking the New England model)
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