Hadley Chest: A colonial chest with a drawer that was used as a hope or dowry chest.
Haitian Cotton: A highly textured woven material with a loose, rolled cotton weft.
Hall Tree: A piece of furniture that's usually placed in an entryway or hallway to hang coats and hats on. Hall trees often have a mirror back and a table surface or storage bench seat. Find a hall tree.
Halogen: A light that emits true color characteristics, unlike fluorescent and other lighting that tend to give a room a yellowish cast, halogen's light remains neutral.
Hand: The feel of cloth or leather, the sensation of its textural qualities.
Hand Distressing: Creating a marred surface, which lends an aged look to furniture.
Hand Tied: Coil springs that are attached to the webbing with links and then "hand tied" to each other and the frame to achieve differing amounts of elasticity in the seat. Two, four, and eight way hand ties are commonly used.
Handkerchief Table: Term refers to a single leaf table with a leaf and a triangular top. Closed the table fits in a corner, opened it's a small square.
Hardwood: Wood derived from trees such as oak, beech, maple, mahogany, and walnut.
Hardwood Frames: Upholstered furniture frames made from hardwoods such as oak or birch. These woods are normally kiln dried and resist splitting.
Harvest Table: A narrow rectangular table that has hinged drop leaves, this design takes up very little space and offers a nice amount of surface area when the leaves are up. Find dining furniture.
Hassock: Upholstered footstool large enough to be used as seating, often referred to as an ottoman. Find chairs and ottomans.
Headboard: An upright structure rising above the mattress at the head of the bed. Find a headboard.
Heading: The hemmed, stiffened, layered portion on the top of a curtain or drapery.
Helical Wire: Thin wire spirals that hold adjacent rows of mattress coils together and may be used to hold coils to the border rods. They can run horizontally or vertically. Not present in mattresses with individually pocketed coils. Find a new mattress.
Hepplewhite: A neo-classic furniture style that followed Chippendale from the late 1700's to about 1820. It overlaps with Sheraton styles and shares similar elements of restrained design, tapered legs and classical ornamentation like urns and shields.
High Relief: Term refers to deep carving of the plane surface of any material.
High Resiliency Foam: A pure foam with a cell structure different from conventional foam which results in more durable and more supportive material. This foam will retain its shape longer.
Highboy: Simply a tall chest of drawers. The style was developed in the 1700's and is usually composed of a base and a top section with drawers, which is often topped with a decorative broken pediment crown. The name comes from the French "haut bois" which means "high wood". Find bedroom furniture.
Highlighting: A color-removal technique in the finishing process, which is used to highlight natural grain characteristics.
Hinged King: A king size mattress with a divided border rod in the center to allow for slight bending or folding without causing damage. Find a mattress set.
Hitchcock Chair: A black-painted/finished chair of the 1800's with gold powdered stenciling of fruit and flowers on the backrest, named after its designer Lambert Hitchcock. Heavily influenced by Sheraton designs. Web site of the Hitchcock Chair Company.
Hitchcock Style: Style created by Lambert Hitchcock of Connecticut from the early to mid 1800's. Although most famous for the design of Hitchcock chairs, Lambert also produced stools, settees, rockers, cabinets and cradles. The Hitchcock chair is still reproduced to this day.
Hock Leg: A cabriole leg having a broken curve on the inner side of the knee.
Hood: A shaped top on cabinet work that usually overhangs the vertical lines.
Hoop Back Chair: Hepplewhite or Queen Anne chair with a top rail curving directly into its arms.
Hope Chest: Traditionally a hinged-top chest for storing items such as household goods and textile items in anticipation of marriage. Also referred to as a dowry chest. Find a hope chest.
Hue: A color tone such as red, yellow, blue, etc.
Huntboard: Designed to be light and portable so it could be moved outdoors. Originally used for serving food and drinks after a hunt.
Hutch: Enclosed cupboard with shelves resting on a solid base such as buffet or desk. Find dining room furniture.
Note: Some terms in this glossary may no longer be in common use and are posted for reasons of historical interest.
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