Bell pull#Central bell panel

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A bell pull is a woven textile, pull cord, handle, knob, or other object that connects with a bell or bell wire, and which rings a service bell when pulled. Bell pulls may be used to summon workers in homes of people who employ butlers, housemaids, nannies or other domestic workers,{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/09/02/109721845.pdf |title=Englishmen's Dining Rooms |newspaper = New York Times |date = 2 September 1894 |accessdate = 28 October 2010 }}{{cite book|author1=Larry Nash White|author2=Emily Blankenship White|title=Marietta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aypgOGTrv30C&pg=PA34|accessdate=15 November 2011|date=February 2004|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-3231-8|pages=34–}} and often have a tassel at the bottom.{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=PBH19111118.2.83.10 |title = New London Millinery |newspaper = Poverty Bay Herald |date = 18 November 1911 |accessdate = 28 October 2010}} The bell pull is one element of a complex interior mechanical network which, in Victorian times, typically involved a range of bell pulls in different rooms, connected to a central bank of labelled bells in a room where servants would wait to be summoned.