Stove screen
A stove screen , also known as a fireplace screen or fire screen , is a table that can be set up freely and is used to keep excessive heat from a stove or open fireplace away from people or pieces of furniture and to distribute it in the room. In the case of open fireplaces and fireplaces, the umbrella also protects against flying sparks , at the same time it keeps out drafts when there is no fire and covers the unsightly fireplace.
When living rooms were still generally heated with stoves, stove screens were quite common. Today they are hardly to be found in everyday life. In the Biedermeier period , stove shades were often covered with embroidered fabric and formed an object of decoration. Even in summer, when there was no heating, it was used as a decoration in front of the stove. The embroidery was often done by women as a leisure activity. Some specimens from this period are height-adjustable, while others have panels that can be pulled out to the side, which create a widening.
At the end of the 19th century, stove shades were mostly manufactured industrially from sheet metal and painted or printed in color. At that time, stove screens were often in three parts, like a screen , so that they could be folded up and easily put away.
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- ↑ universal_lexikon.deacademic.com accessed on February 17, 2014