Dressing the High Post Bed Through Three Centuries
In this workshop, participants will assemble a flat and a curved tester high post bed and explore all the different possible ways of dressing that bed for both a high style and rural setting.
This is a hands-on and lecture workshop beginning with setting up a high post bed with roping and mounting the tester fabric, curtains and valances.
Examples of fabrics for different hangings will be shared, and participants will leave with methods of dressing beds in several styles, as well as a sample book of reproduction historic fabrics. Students will learn where to source fabrics and hardware for a variety of styles. Students will receive a template for measuring any high post bed for hangings.
We will also share different methods of putting rings on curtains for bed hangings and window treatments.
If you enjoy sewing, please bring your hand sewing kit. We will have sewing kits available if you prefer.
Duration: 3 Days
Dates: September 12th - 14th 2025
Includes:
Materials
Limited to: 20 Students
More: Workshop Information
All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.
All participants must be 18+ years old.
In this workshop, participants will assemble a flat and a curved tester high post bed and explore all the different possible ways of dressing that bed for both a high style and rural setting.
This is a hands-on and lecture workshop beginning with setting up a high post bed with roping and mounting the tester fabric, curtains and valances.
Examples of fabrics for different hangings will be shared, and participants will leave with methods of dressing beds in several styles, as well as a sample book of reproduction historic fabrics. Students will learn where to source fabrics and hardware for a variety of styles. Students will receive a template for measuring any high post bed for hangings.
We will also share different methods of putting rings on curtains for bed hangings and window treatments.
If you enjoy sewing, please bring your hand sewing kit. We will have sewing kits available if you prefer.
Duration: 3 Days
Dates: September 12th - 14th 2025
Includes:
Materials
Limited to: 20 Students
More: Workshop Information
All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.
All participants must be 18+ years old.
In this workshop, participants will assemble a flat and a curved tester high post bed and explore all the different possible ways of dressing that bed for both a high style and rural setting.
This is a hands-on and lecture workshop beginning with setting up a high post bed with roping and mounting the tester fabric, curtains and valances.
Examples of fabrics for different hangings will be shared, and participants will leave with methods of dressing beds in several styles, as well as a sample book of reproduction historic fabrics. Students will learn where to source fabrics and hardware for a variety of styles. Students will receive a template for measuring any high post bed for hangings.
We will also share different methods of putting rings on curtains for bed hangings and window treatments.
If you enjoy sewing, please bring your hand sewing kit. We will have sewing kits available if you prefer.
Duration: 3 Days
Dates: September 12th - 14th 2025
Includes:
Materials
Limited to: 20 Students
More: Workshop Information
All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.
All participants must be 18+ years old.
Instructors
Susan Rabbit Goody
Susan Rabbit Goody runs Thistle Hill Weavers, a small custom and commission textile mill reproducing historic textiles. Her work in the field of historic textiles has been a multi decade adventure. Her areas of concentration are the transition between hand and powered textile technology, and the place of hand produced textiles in the material culture of the 17th through 19th centuries. Coverlets, carpets, and everyday textiles in rural America are her areas of identification and dating expertise.