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primary, but with some simple tools, and abundant supply, furniture, especially<br />
for outdoors, could have also been created using stone. Prehistoric furniture<br />
made of wood, straw etc, due to their perishable nature are not preserved, but<br />
a range of stone furniture have been excavated from a Neolithic Village in Skara<br />
Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Stone was probably used in this area due to its<br />
availability, and also because of the scarcity of much easily workable timber.<br />
Furniture ranging from Cupboards, Dressers, Beds, Shelves and Seats has been<br />
excavated on this site.<br />
Stone furniture in Nepal, even though stone is not an indegenous conventional<br />
furniture material, has also been recorded. A stone bed near Tusa Hiti in Patan<br />
Durbar Complex, where, legend has it, Siddhi Narsimha Malla prayed after<br />
bathing in the Tusa Hiti, is present till date. Although records of furniture history<br />
in Nepal is sketchy at best, the use of traditional products like hand woven mats<br />
and metal accessories - for both daily as well as ritual use, are visible even today,<br />
and are have been handed down from generation to generation. Many of these<br />
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