Fibers & Batting: Lesson 8

Fibers are in a lot of beds. It used to be that beds were made of whatever was regionally available. It could be horsetail, it could be straw, it could be cotton. It doesn’t matter cause it fell out of fashion. And the reason it fell out of fashion is because coils and foam were so cheap to produce and give you lots of different feels and became broadly available.

However, it’s still used in a lot of beds. In fact, some of the best beds in the world used just batting materials and no foam. They’ll have coils and tufting and that tufting is going to be something that makes that batting durable because the batting will compress. You can count on batting to compressing about half. So if you have six inches of batting it will become three.

You probably, if you’ve ever had a futon mattress experience that were it gets very thin and very hard. You can still have something quite durable, some are going to be more resilient and less likely to compress over time like a horsetail or a wool you’ve got a natural crimp to that material.

But cottons polyester fibers are going to thin and pretty hard pretty quickly. These fibers are often used in beds as the fire barrier and I’m going to talk about fire barriers so don’t forget to check out that lesson to learn more about fire barriers used in the quilt of a lot of mattresses. You generally want to see these fibers used in moderation. When overused, these fibers can cause a mattress to divot over time.

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