Trestle support

A trestle support (called as well trestle legs) is mainly a horizontal piece of wood fitted with four divergent legs that serve, together with at least another one of the same type, to hold a board or several posts forming a temporary table or desk.

They can be classified mainly in two families:

  • Fixed trestle legs
  • Folding trestle legs

Trestle table

A trestle table is a form of table improvisation. In shape and manufacture it sometimes resembles certain variations of the antique field desk which was used by officers not too far from the battlefield. Basically, a modern trestle table is a plank of wood set on two trestles.

For instance, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and top Amazon executives usually worked on doors set on trestle supports, as a visible example of a frugal company culture.

In the United States, a table or desk supported by X-shaped trestles is usually called a sawbuck table.

Heraldry
Trestles in the medieval House of Stratford coat of arms[1]

The trestle (also tressle, tressel and threstle) is (rarely) used as a charge in heraldry, and symbolically associated with hospitality (as historically the trestle was a tripod used both as a stool and to support tables at banquets).[2]

See also

References
  1. Guillim, John. "A Display of Heraldry" 1724
  2. Guillim, John. "A Display of Heraldry" 1724
  • Gloag, John. A Complete Dictionary of Furniture. Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1991.
  • Moser,Thomas. Measured Shop Drawings for American Furniture. New York: Sterling Publishing Inc., 1985.
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