According to historical sources modern mattresses compare extremely favourably to those used in more distant times, especially for the average person. "Spend just one night on old-fashioned bedding at a historical site and you will find whole new appreciation for your meticulously engineered, individually adjustable, pillow-topped bed." stated The Ledger.As simple spring coil mattresses were not invented until the 1860s, mattresses made prior to that were apparently much like lying on "lumpy, cloth-covered rock". US pioneers would bed down on stuffed sacks instead.These sacks were specially made to a familys own specifications, out of a type of cloth similar to thick canvas, known as ticking. They stitched together using small stitches and then stuffed with either retted moss or straw. It was suggested recently in the Osceola Sentinel Tribune that a spring clean of the bedroom could enhance peoples quality of sleep.
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