Bed scissors

Bed scissors from Graz (Austria), 1797, exhibit in the Freiberg Bed and Sleep Museum

A bed scissors consists of two to three timbers of a wooden axis such as a circle are held together. It was spread open between the bed frame (wooden side of the bed between the head and foot sections) and the mattress and tucked in to prevent the sleeper or the duvet from falling sideways.

literature

• Scissors that. In: Adelung, Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Volume 3. Leipzig 1798, pp. 1419-1420. ("In some areas, the bed scissors are such a kind of wood, consisting of two arms, on the cradles or beds of children, which prevents nothing from falling out of them.").

Web links

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• Bed scissors in the folklore collection of the Westerwald Landscape Museum
• Bed scissors in the object database of the Eisenstrasse cultural park