Mattresses were already in the ancient sleeping comfort

Even the heroes of Greek mythology to appreciate the benefits of mattresses, such as inheritance of more than 800 years before Christ documented. While the Greeks have received very spartan, treat the Romans a few centuries later, true luxury. The mattresses in the holy Rome were often associated with hay, wool, goose feathers or reed filled. But not only the infantry, but even the relatively poor living slaves came to enjoy the comfort, which could provide a mattress. The mattress of the lower classes, however, were not as well equipped as the upmarket luxury mattresses stands.
Frequently, the mattress of the lower ranks filled with plants, such as archaeological finds show. With time, developed not only the mattress away, but also began to conquer the world through the mattress. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries there were mattresses in the Arab world that there "matrah" had been mentioned. The word has such meaning as in the German-speaking world the word "ground cushion". Because nothing else was ultimately mattresses earlier. With mattresses were often better pillows, moreover, usually on the upper stands were provided, while the "little man" on the hard ground or, at best, on the night had sacks. About Sicily finally reached the mattresses all over Europe. More than a hundred years put the mattress in the middle class. Only after the end of the Second World War there was a significant increase of comfort, it did not just slatted for mattresses, but is innovative mattress fillers have virtually reinvented.

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