Furniture Stretchers Flashcards
What type of stretcher is an X-stretcher that bows upward decoratively?
Arched Stretcher.
What type of stretcher uses four crossbars to connect furniture legs around a square perimeter?
Box Stretcher.
What is another name for a Cow-Horn Stretcher?
Crinoline, Spur, or Crescent Stretcher.
What stretcher has a bow-like rod connecting two front legs and two short rods (spurs) connecting to each back leg?
Cow-Horn Stretcher.
What 18th-century table stretcher has two lyre-shaped segments connecting the legs, with the open end of each lyre facing outward?
Double-Lyre Stretcher.
What stretcher consists of two crossbars connected in the middle by a middle crossbar?
H-Stretcher.
What 19th-century British stretcher is used on three-legged furniture and forms a triangular configuration?
Isle of Man Stretcher.
What stretcher curves more than once?
Serpentine Stretcher.
What stretcher has two crossbars that each join the front and back leg on the opposite side, connecting in the middle to form an X shape?
X-Stretcher.
