This is a quick and easy to understand guide to learn some popular information about furnitures. If you have a term or phrase that you want to learn more about, click on its beginning letter down below.
This glossary of common furniture terms may help familiarizing yourself with furnitures. It may also help improving your product knowledge on different kind of furnitures, and on furniture construction as well.
Furniture terms
T-Cushion - A "T" shaped cushion designed to fit around the arm of the upholstered piece of furniture.
Taped Leg - A leg that gets incrementally smaller towards the bottom.
Tapestry - A highly decorative fabric where the design is woven onto the loom.
Tester - A canopy over a bed; a Tested bed is a bed with high posts that will allow the use of a canopy.
Toile - A cotton fabric with designs of country settings, animals, people and other objects are printed on a solid background of one color in another color.
Tongue and Groove - A type of joinery used to attach two perpendicular boards by fitting and gluing the slat of one into the groove of the other.
Trestle Table - A braced form supporting the tabletop.
Trompe l'oeil - "Fooling the eye" is the translation of this phrase used to describe decorative painting on walls or furniture pieces that appear to be three dimensional, thus the name.
Trundle Bed - A low bed that can be rolled under a regular bed for storage when not in use.
Turned - The process of removal of wood from a block to form a particular shape; the wood is clamped into something similar to a rotisserie and turned at a high speed while a sanding machine, or lathe, is moved across its surface to shape it.
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