Straight-backed chairs, 203 Stretcher, evolution of the, 200 Stretcher, Yorkshire splat form, 96 Suffolk oak furniture, 283 Sussex firebacks, 296 Sussex ironworks, the, 295, 296 "Swan head" to cupboard, 168 Sweden, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, 38 Swift quoted, 161 Tables-- Adam style, 186 Arcaded spandrils, illustrated, 179 Bedfordshire types, 283 Cambridge types, 283 Collapsible form (Charles II.), 103 Cross stretcher, =X= form, 103 Cupid's bow underframing, 107; illustrated, 109 Elizabethan bulbous-leg form, 60 Essex types, 283 Flap tables (Queen Anne), 89; (Georgian), illustrated, 183 Gate-leg, 85-112 Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, 89 Hertfordshire types, 283 Isle of Man table, 283 Scalloped-edge tea-table, illustrated, 181 Scalloped underframing, illustrated, 73 Sixteenth-century style, 52 Spandrils, arcaded, illustrated, 179 Stretchers, splat form, 89; illustrated, 97 Tea-table, Queen Anne style, 185 Three-legged, 283 Underframing, Cupid's bow, illustrated, 109 Various local types, 283 Yorkshire type, 89 Tapers, how made by cottagers, 288 Tavern chair, the, 249 Tea-drinking becomes national, 170 Tea-gardens, eighteenth-century, 249 Tea-table, Queen Anne style, 185 Three-legged tables, 283 Transition from Jacobean to William and Mary styles, 207 Trestle in gate-leg table, 89 Triangular gate form, 86; illustrated, 87 Tripod tables, 185 Turning, various patterns in Jacobean leg, 89 Union with Scotland, 161 Varangian Guard introduce Byzantine furniture into Scandinavia, 37 Veneer, in walnut, early eighteenth-century, 169 Village cabinet-maker, originality of, 32 Wales, Prince of, feathers in chair back, 227 Walnut gate-leg tables, 103 Walnut in general use, 207 Walnut styles, early eighteenth-century, 169 Walnut supplanted by mahogany, 207 Warming-pan, the, 295 Wardrobe, Lancashire type, 278 Welsh carving, 272 Welsh dressers, 133 Wesley and the Methodist movement, 175 Whitefield and the colliers, 175 Wheel-back Windsor chairs, 257 William and Mary dressers, 126 William and Mary gate-leg tables, 104 William and Mary period, finely turned work, 75 William and Mary style, its development from Jacobean, 207 Windsor chair, the, 243-263 Windsor chair, the, Sheraton influence, 259 Windsor chair, its survival, 260 Windsor chairs, Chippendale style, 254 Wood patterns used for firebacks, 300 Woods employed in farmhouse furniture, 33 Woods used in Windsor chairs, 249, 250 Woods used in walnut marquetry, 169 Women's petition against coffee, 170 Yorkshire chairs, 203
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