The main products manufactured were footstools, vanity benches, and dining room suites complete with chairs. In the Georgian era, canvaswork was popular for chair coverings, footstools, screens and card tables. They make fine footstools, liquor stands, or, if cut long in the leg, umbrella stands. Footstools where generally interchangeable in everyday life from the 17th through the early 19th century. Footstools have been known for many years, and have evolved throughout history.