Luxury, Natural, & Organic Mattresses

Comfortable, supportive mattresses are something most of us take for granted. We don’t think about how they’ve evolved over time.

Late Neolithic Age home featuring a stone dresser and two stone beds in the Skara Brae prehistoric village located in Orkney Scotland UK. Image courtesy of Prehistoric UK

Here’s an eye-opening lesson on the bed throughout history and in more modern times.Here’s  something to think about the next time you go to sleep. So lie down and let us tell you a story.

• 10,000 years ago, in the Neolithic period, people began sleeping on primitive “beds.”
• 3400 BCE. Egyptian pharaohs discover the benefits of raising a pallet off the earth. King Tutankahmen had a bed of ebony and gold. Common people slept on palm bows heaped in the corner of their home.
• Roman Empire. First luxury bed. Often decorated with gold, silver or bronze, these beds featured mattresses stuffed with reeds, hay, wool or feathers.
• Roman Empire. Romans discover the waterbed. The sleeper would recline in a cradle of warm water until drowsy, then be lifted onto an adjacent cradle with a mattress, where they would be rocked to sleep.

Bronze Age Egyptian wood bed featuring gold sheaths and a platform consisting of woven mats. Animal shaped legs accented many Egyptian bed styles in this era. Image courtesy of Eternal Egypt

Interesting factoid:

Great Bed of Ware.
On display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it originally measured 18 feet six inches wide by 12 feet long and was elaborately carved and canopied. And could accommodate 68 people.

Stay tuned for more History of The Bed brought to you by The Better Sleep Council.