List of Illustrations

1. Sheet (part) of woven linen, England, c. 1680–c. 1699, Object No. T.1-1986, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2. Linen sheet with bobbin-lace insertions, England, seventeenth– eighteenth century, Object No. T.296-1965, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 3. Richard Brathwaite, Ar’t asleepe husband? A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted, from the choicest flowers of philosophy, poesy, antient and moderne history, London, 1640, 60380, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California 4. Cap liner, c. 1630–c. 1650, Object No. T.68-2004, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 5. Carex mattress from Titchfield, Hampshire, Object No. 61/242, © Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading 6. Sheet, England, c. 1575–c. 1625, Object No. T.16-2007, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 7. Petre monument, St Mary’s, Ingatestone, image no. AA98_04258, reproduced by permission of Historic England 8. ‘Young Bateman’s ghost, or, a godly warning to all maidens’, London, 1760, courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University 9. Candle-marked ceiling from Great Barton, Suffolk, c. 1660–c. 1700, © Timothy Easton 10. Bed-curtain, c. 1676–c. 1725, Object No. 71.175/1, © Museum of London 11. Hooded lipwork cradle, c. 1770, Object No. 68/1, © Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading