The history of your bed

For centuries, the bed of one of the most important pieces of furniture in a household was.

Beds are a status symbol: Tudor Royals and nobles wore their wealth through their four-poster bed and drapes and curtains to develop and Many people today desire a spacious and elegant bed in their home.

The difference in quality and comfort of the beds is always separated from the rich and poor continues to do so. Although some of us enjoy the luxury of fine linen, Egyptian cotton, others around the world are still prepared for the night by the deployment of a mat.

beds in the world

Early beds were little more than piles of straw or other natural materials to lay the complaints of a naked, cold ground easier. An important change took place when the beds were removed from the first floor to the cross currents of air to protect the dirt and parasites.

More than 3,600 years, the Persians goatskin filled with water to create beds of the water first. In ancient Egypt, beds made of wood and reed mats were made, and the bed was used as a place to eat and play, sleep and social.

In Homer’s Odyssey, is the bed of Ulysses as the braided line, as described, while the ancient Romans had a large number of beds for different purposes. These include the cubicularis lectus, bed or room to sleep on, lectus discubitorius or tables, beds, located in three people eating and lectus funebris, where the dead were carried on the pyre . Companies have benefited in the oldest, however, only the rich can afford the luxury of sleeping in a bed.

beds in the Middle Ages

In England Saxon, a bed generally consists of a mattress on wooden panels, covered with blankets and skins. In the last Saxon period, some beds have been raised wooden platforms. Again this is only the rich, who slept in their beds, all others spent the night huddled on the floor around the fire in the hall.

The 13th Century saw the arrival of the canopy or tester, was suspended by ropes from the beams above the bed. Curtains were hung to block the flow of air and light. Gradually, blankets was costly, often involving fabric and gold decorative fringe. In the early 14th Century, beds of feathers imported from France, became popular in English homes. In the richest households placed a feather bed mounted on the frame (mattress) was made of straw, interspersed with a layer of cloth. The carpet is also revealed at that time.

The four-poster bed was originally in the 15th Century has been introduced, probably from Austria. These beds are generally finely carved columns with the giant big as 18 inches in diameter, bearing the great weight of the equipment timber-framed. Carvings on the bed were the emblem of the family, monsters, griffins, save, and Ritter, curtains and tapestries embroidered with rich colors and patterns very exotic. When people traveled between manors, they often made their bed with them. cots was a crossbar “announced beds and curtains called” mobile chamber. “

In 1600, the bed would be a poor household in a wooden frame with rope or leather supports. Mattress was a bag of sweet filling, usually of straw or wool, sometimes. However, a merchant may be several beds of feathers in his house, often with a richly carved posts and backs.

Origins of Modern

In the mid-18 century, a broad range of materials for the beds were available. quality linen or cotton was used for blankets, while the coconut, cotton, wool and horsehair-filled mattresses and pillows. Until the late 19th century had replaced the iron and steel structures, especially the traditional wooden bed.

In 1873, Paget Sir James being treated at St. Bartholomew’s, the first use of a water bed and avoid pressure points. The mattress filled with water allows the pressure evenly distributed throughout the body. From 1895 sold a few waterbeds were Harrod’s correspondence. But due to lack of appropriate materials, the waterbed did not win, has been developed for vinyl is very popular in the 1960s.

In 1900, the American William Lawrence Murphy invented the compact Murphy bed, which folded in a closet. 1929 saw the arrival of latex mattresses expensive, and about the same time, pocket spring mattresses were introduced. These were individual springs sewn from cloth bags in total.

The spring mattress is still sold worldwide, although the new technology has made possible alternatives, such as memory foam mattresses that are designed perfectly to the shape of the body’s shape and ensures a good sleep night.

From an aesthetic standpoint, the beds made of natural materials such as pine have recently increased in popularity again.