Upholsters Tools, by which they perform their Work. There are several things they use in their Trade, which are also Exercised in other Occupations, and therefore to avoid their double Engraving on Plates, I have omitted many here, which are set down else where, to which Plates I refer you, where their names are set down in particular, chap.3 numb.35.
Stuffing stick
Image from proof plateCLXXII. In this Quarter I do present you with four sorts of Instruments chiefly used by the Upholsters, and by very few other Trades.
The first on the Dexter side is the Stuffing Stick, it is or may be made of tough Wood or Iron, being a little bent at the end, with a nick in it; by the help whereof, all parts of the seat of a Cushion, Chair, or Stool, are equally filled.
Prickal
Image from proof plateThe second which occupieth the Fesse point (marked b.) is termed a Prickal: It is a kind of Aul with a great Box or other hard Wooden head; by the help of this, with the blow of an Hammer on the head is made an hole, to put and drive the shank of a Brass Nail into the Wood, which would not drive otherways.
Upholsterers rule
Image from proof plateThe third which stands on the Sinister side, is termed an Upholsterers Rule, or square Rule; the one part twice as long at the other end, with a Shouldering under it like to a Lafe under a Beam which makes it much resemble a Gibbet, or or a Testudo in which the Romans of old used to sling their Battering Rame.
Pack needle
Image from proof plateThe fourth is that lying in the Base, (marked a.) and is called their Pack or Matting Needle; It is made of Iron or Steel with a Long Eye, bending upwards at the Point, the bottom side is flat, and the bending side round.
Untranscribed item(s) Index (Things of most Note in the 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Chapters of this third Book: Noted according to the Folio's)
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