A bed is a piece of bedroom furniture where people sleep. For a long times and across culture, the bed was considered to be the most important piece of furniture in a house, and was considered to be a status symbol. In ancient Egypt, the bed wasn’t just a place for resting or sleeping, but also as a place to eat, drink and socialise with one’s guests. Bedstar is an excellent vendor of all the best beds and mattresses, although you might not find some of these ancient examples.
According to A Brief History of Beds, early beds were shallow chests where bedding was placed without any sort of padding. The first attempt at a soft bed involved ropes strung across a wooden frame.
The Mattress
A bed in 1600 was a simple wooden frame with either leather or hempen rope supports. The mattress was a bag of filling, either straw or wool, sometimes called a palliasse. It was covered in a cheap and plain fabric.
After a century, the cover upgraded to a more expensive cotton or linen. The fillings become much softer, with people using cotton, wool, and horse hair or coconut fibre stuffed into a mattress box which was shaped to fit a frame. This is when a mattress gained buttons and stitches to hold it together.
By the late nineteenth century, metal replaced the past wooden frames, with the most expensive beds made from rubber latex beds. Also introduced were pocket spring mattresses. This involved individual springs that were sewn into linked fabric bags.
Waterbeds
Water beds came about initially as goat skin filled with water, which were used in Ancient Persia nearly 4000 years ago. Waterbeds regained their ancient popularity following their introduction as a treatment and way of preventing bedsores in St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1873. Harrods started selling waterbeds from 1895. These were very much like massive hot water bottles! The invention of vinyl in the 1960’s really led to the waterbed taking off.
Memory Foam
The first memory foam matress was introduced n 1991. The substance that makes them was invented by NASA to try improve survival rates in aircraft.
Murphy Bed
A Murphy bed is the kind that flips up into a wall space, and is used in living spaces with little available room.
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