I will be looking for Hampshire wool for my next mattress project. It sounds like a lot of us are in the same boat. https://www.etsy.com/shop/NaturalFelt?ref=pr_shop_more, Another source for ready to go organic wool — batting (sheets of carded wool) and bolus (little springy bits of pre-felted wool that stay loose and cushy for longer in use) is http://www.nearseanaturals.com/browse.php?category=42. 5 Steps To Building Your Own Epic Blanket Fort. I get the impression that this maintenance is not annual, but happens as necessary–which may be something like every 5 years. I think the wool batts need to start out at about 6 inche thickness before you stitch the whole thing together, but I’m not sure yet. Now I know what to do with my excess yarn stash!! I’d have to find myself a new, hammock loving husband. I’m going to edit the post to add this as a helpful resource– or nay, a solution! Grateful for the links. I read an article in the Telegraph about a British woman who dragged her beloved wool mattress home from Italy. I’m a spinner and weaver and work with raw wool on a regular bases. It’s available on ebay and at upholstery sites for a reasonable price: $26-$30 for a 15- yard x 27″ roll. By the time you buy both components for a queen bed you’ll be paying more than $2,000 (Twice as much as the Parisian bed–and I don’t think of Paris as Bargain Central). YES!! I slept on wool-filled beds when I was living in a remote area of Greece about 25 years ago and, you should be forewarned, they do feel an awful lot like a firm futon, not a mattress. Mattress that are still going strong and not needing to be replaced. I think I may have put these comments in the wrong place. Most picnic and fleece blankets are made of fabrics that don’t fray, so you can leave the edges raw if you like. I agree with Erik. They would do it only in the summer laying the fabric and wool on the lawn. Rather than placing your sleeping bag on the hard ground, bedrolls make use of an air or foam mattress and additional blankets to create a plush and comfortable bed. Maybe that’s a baby step. I raise my own sheep and also buy wool from local sheep producers who would otherwise through their wool away. We bought a king size organic wool futon from Cotton Cloud Futon 7 years ago and now we are looking to make bunk beds. Thanks, Amy! I have a good source for raw, uncleaned wool…a friend has 2,000#!! Let us know if you do this, I’d love an alternative to the toxic mattress-industrial complex! Then I would bring the top cover back and start hand-stitching one side at a time pressing firmly on the wool. How to Make a Twin Quilt Into a Daybed Cover. They don’t catch on fire. Here in Europe, many people are turning to organic mattresses, either stuffed with wool or compressed cotton (which is actually going back in time to the first mattresses after straw filled sacks! despite the $$, he still can’t stay in bed more than a couple of hours. The only thing I would hesitate about using a very expensive mattress would be the fear of getting bed bugs and wasting all that dough. I am also fed up with the waste and hazards (chemicals) of the mattress business. They were considered healthier because they “breathed”. I was very interested to start this business my self but i am busy with my own trade, however, if you have any specific questions i would be glad to address them for you. Don’t worry, the smell should disappear as the solution dries. I am now cleaning out the apartment of a 90 yo Armenian who passed away. 10 years is longer than I thought. This is the story of my life. That is something I wanted to know — is this still widely practiced. Did you build a mattress? This sounds like it could be a new emerging craft. There is also a woolen mill starting up here in northern Minnesota. Currently out of vogue, chenille bedspreads were popular in the 1950s. There is no way I could successfully remove myself from a hammock in he middle of the night, having to pee NOW, and staggering around to get my footing. My mattress feel like new every time I get into bed. I can’t reply to all the comments because I’m super busy this weekend, but I appreciate them all. Look for a food grade- they use it in grains and feed to keep the insects down. Would layers of wool blankets work? I just came upon another site where she made a wool mattress for her son. Different densities are used for cushions and pillows. Please post updates if you decide to do this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVRfVEONxJQ. I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for making this such a lively discussion, and your good tips. Cos i too, want to make my own mattress! I am currently experimenting with making my own wool mattress and pillow. Every spring the wife wrote about refilling the mattress. Thus, I don’t recommend hand-me-down mattresses for your baby.) Not only are store bought mattresses wasteful but they are over priced and short lived. My mattress has lived its whole life in a plastic cover because of my allergies, so it is in pristine shape, lookswise. Hello. This factory dries in a hot oven method to sterilise the wool before making the balls. However, if I install a hammock in the bedroom I may have to find myself a new husband. Replacing a worn-out box spring could be a cost-effective way to improve a mattress… (Living the dream of the 1890’s…). It’s a puzzler. If you want a fuller translation, you would need to use google as advised, but I’ve just gone over them for my own interest. These are carded to various degrees, separating the fibres. You just have to get good at telling the difference between wool felt and poly felt. Does anyone have directions posted? It’s a lot of work to card the wool. The bed which ia a giant piece of latex which is layered with a thinner piece of latex turns into a giant slope for me due to the size disparity between me and my husband who is super tall. Please keep us posted. For the prices I was reading about it made sense. In any case, one year, during the stuffing ritual, she lost her wedding ring, too the mattress apart, but never found the ring. Sheets, Pillowcases and Blankets. Overall it will only have cost $350 which is so much less expensive than a traditional mattress, and at least if we ever buy a fancy mattress from one of these organic companies I still have the wool and can have it made into quilts! I second the hammock idea above. I do not know anything about them other than what is on their site, but am happy to see a company still operating mostly the old fashioned way…Portland in the1890s, haha. http://www.mycustombedding.com/ I toured a Colonial museum once and the bed was strung with a grid of rope, with a straw tick on top. 1) The best wool for beds is long staple wool. I’d never considered making my own mattress. It burns little. Lots of useful pictures. Once the wool is picked I would layer it as it comes from the picker. I don’t like the waste of it all: the ignoble dragging of the old mattress to the curb the prospect of sleeping on a brand new construct of toxic foam and fire retardants–or opting for a less toxic but less comfortable futon. Nonetheless, I’m quite charmed at the idea of decorating our bedroom as a lower deck of a man o’war, a la Patrick O’Brian. My life is turning into a Portlandia skit. Nope, still living with the old mattress and waffling about what to do. Lasted 3-4 days without attention. I am trying to find the preparation necessary to make a pillow & came across your article. Pingback: Homemade Mattress | Family - Popular Question & Answer. Pingback: A Homemade Nontoxic Crib Mattress, Part 1: R&D. Visually inspect the blanket to make sure there are no remaining mildew spores on it. You’re right — nothing could beat a hammock in terms of conserving materials, simplicity, etc… I’m game. I don’t think our parents ever did the ‘replace every 5-8 years’ thing. Grog and discipline for all! You could also do some research into Japanese futons (completely different than American “futons” or as I call them “blankets over bad springs”) They’re stuffed with cotton or wool, and can be very comfy. The only problem is the cover was a little too big and the wool spread a lot to the sides. I would love to email with anyone who wants to learn more about making their own hull mattress. They make mattresses as well, and even felted wool (stacked) mattresses. I too have been on a mattress quest. When we were shopping around I was told that the reason we don’t have thick all-wool mattresses in the states is because they have to meet some sort of over-the-top federally determined fire code, and wool doesn’t meet this criteria (at least not without tons of lovely flame retardant chemicals). Probably because he has no fat padding. Or decide to open my own wool mattress business in downtown LA. 3″ pads are available in two... Add a wool or cotton mattress topper like this one or this one from Satara, Inc. to add to the comfort of the latex base. The whole idea is great for the environment. They do have some ideas on etsy for that. Futons are heavy and hard, but for a child they are an affordable alternative to a truly natural mattress. | Wonder Incubator, Ah… 3) Here is a webpage, in French, showing the mattress making process. I have bought one their box springs a few years ago(they use real springs) and it was excellent. I have had a couple of quilts with wool batting since I was a little girl. I suppose the water temp. Thanks for the wonderful article! I just found your blog and this post. I remember that my grandmother used to have cotton mattresses and every few years she would send them back to the local mattress shop, in Texas, and they would re “stuff” them and send them back. I would be interested in knowing what others are sleeping on that they highly recommend. Sew the two flat sheets together on three sides, inside out, using a 1-inch seam. A traditional electric blanket or mattress pad simply plugs into the wall and delivers ~120 volts (US) into the wires within the blanket. Sorry, but I haven’t started the mattress project yet. Here in the U.S. there are retailers who sell wool stuffed mattresses. I know right now in my bed research I’m hampered by the fear that I’ll choose/make something too firm for Erik. Line up the top edge of the flat sheet with the top edge of the mattress. I bought 200 pounds of wool locally. Hey Sammi–thanks for the link! I was born and raised in middle east and where i come from wool mattress was the choice. I came across this thread because my husband and I decided to replace our queen with a king and shortly after developed some health issues. Turns out she got the idea from Dimitri. Contact me [email protected] Every Spring the straw tick is emptied, the straw laid out in the hot sun to sterilize, the tick is washed, and the whole thing is put back together. http://marie.nature.over-blog.fr/article-des-matelas-sains-63392164.html. But truly, Erik’s objection was simply that he wasn’t going to *sleep* in a hammock. Mary, where in mn are you? Add a Heated Blanket. Laurie. If you wanted to save just a little more money, you could simply add a mattress topper to your existing spring coil mattress for extra comfort, but over time, you’ll find it won’t work quite as well. . Of interest to people thinking about making a mattress of their own or in search of alternative mattresses is The Ultimate Earth Bed. According to the french website, the mattresses need to be refluffed every 10 years and costs another 400-500 euros. It is a … How to Make a Blanket Fort: 12 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow We’ll review the specific materials you’ll buy in Step 3. I live in Florida and cannot take it anymore on these foam mattresses. But maybe a stack of wool comforters would be easier to sleep ON. I will be doing all of the cleaning, carding etc myself. Long story short.. Bravo for trying to make your own mattress. Can you let me know how it is going with your mattress? My mother in law remembers transferring feathers from a worn out mattress to a new one as a kid growing up on a farm. At the bottom of the post there’s a link to a woman who did the whole straw tic thing. Please keep us posted. But more frustrating than the money is the fact that the beds just don’t look as good as the French and Italian mattresses I’ve seen (see the links above). Wool is antibacterial, repels insects, is sustainable, renewable and readily available. Portland, OR 97232 http://butterpies.com/making-the-bed/ This will give you your box corners for the thickness of the mattress. And they like to talk about what you want, so they would actually welcome a call if you have something special. But I can’t find the strong cotton fabric that was used to make mattresses either. I have been considering making my own wool mattress too. Hi! I encourage you to follow through. Ha! Here are instructions from 1966 from USAID publication on making a cotton mattress–it stresses to lay the cotton; don’t overlap and don’t stuff or it gets lumpy…which I think is what the Welsh woman found out with the wool in your point #2 above. Every night when I get into the thing think “I hate foam mattresses”. I know there isn’t too many that know the answers to my questions but I have to start somewhere. The Italian “carding/fluffing” method is exactly the same procedure that has been followed in India for centuries. 4) Do not fall for the eHow result if you search for how to make a wool mattress. http://butterpies.com/making-the-bed/. At this point I’m thinking about adding a zipper to the mattress edge and cutting it into two pieces of latex instead of one. Contact me [email protected]. 1. And for the colder states, nothing cozier that a wool mattress. And if you don’t like the stitch…well, you’ll be done with the blanket in no time! My grandmother would spend the summer carding the wool for the quilts. I hope you go through with this. These can be from organic wool, or non-organic depending on where I decide to send the wool to have it processed. I can get wool for free. a homemade straw mattress to sit on a cob platform. It’s thicker than quilt batting, so it looks like it might work. The coils can weaken over time and cause the mattress above to sag. But once you buy them, you have a mattress for life. Their Masterpiece Mattresses are awesome, although they are VERY heavy, and they are made to be TURNED, and SHOULD be turned every month. The first uses a middle layer of horsehair to make it springier. At last, it’s time to build your mattress. I too am on the hunt for an affordable, non-toxic, comfy mattress! Finally, we bought an organic, all-cotton futon. My wife’s terribly expensive organic latex mattress comes as various slabs of foam you zip up inside a cover of cotton and wool. Step 2: Choose Your DIY Mattress Type. It also helps extend the lifespan of your mattress, by keeping out bacteria, moisture, and dirt. We eventually softened her bed up with a wool bed topper. I’ve bookmarked it in my google bookmarks. I can’t pick it up at all- my husband has to put on the bottom sheet by himself because I can’t handle the mattress. This is fascinating. I think what makes them so funny is that they are making fun of all of us- we howled when they asked after the welfare of their chicken dinner because we’ve done that! Finish the edges. As an aside, I’ve been drooling over camping hammocks for ages. wide-toothed comb to fluff up the matted wool. This would be good start in learning the process and this pad can be used on top of the existing mattress. I am so glad to read this post! I’d I’ve to hear how your mattress is coming along and see if I could get some wool from you! Had both recarded this year after nearly 10 years of ownership. With the use of a sewing machine and other materials, making a homemade mattress is easy. Is this the most responses you have ever received from a post? they make very nice organic mattresses. It seems there are 3 or 4 such business still remaining in the country, but it’s by no means a mainstream option here. It is the trickiest step in making a bed, but is also the part which will make your bed look neatest. I think I might be more action oriented/experimental if I lived alone, but I have to take Erik into consideration, too, and he’s much more fussy about his sleeping surfaces than I am. While reading your column I thought of a way that I am trying. Or perhaps it is only done/made in more enlightened countries. As a fellow Angelina, let me know if you ever endeavor to have your own operation. I was doing research earlier in the year on how to make Waldorf dolls, and they are traditionaly stuffed with wool, because apparently as the child plays with it the wool absorbs and retains the child’s body heat. Sew with a 1/2″ seam leaving an opening at the top or bottom of the mattress. Please fel free to ask if you need help with the french in the website you linked! Have you thought about using a hammock? About 1-2″ thick. We have kapok trees and we make our own pillows. Hand-stitching is also easy to be undone once the wool needs to be re-picked again, but it will be long time before you would need to do that. Laughed at your portlandia comment. But as someone who’s tried to buy wool stuffing for dolls, I’d be wary of trying to buy enough to fill a bed, unless I had some sheep wandering around. No horsehair in this one. )With the emphasis on the environment, these are a great idea. Actually, anything you think might be helpful would be great! So every double bed has on top of it 2 twin size mattresses, which inevitably drift apart in the night…. Handsewing, but it isn’t as difficult or time consuming as it sounds. They’re affordable, made with local fibers that we card/process and since wool is a natural flame retardant, we do not treat the mattresses with chemicals. I don’t want to know what the outcome would have been if it had been synthetic and “flame redardant”. I have made both of my sons quilts with wool army blankets as batting, and the next quilt I make for hubs’ and my bed will have a wool inside. (I think what I used) The guy basically goes around in this village fluffing and replacing the wool! However the website no longer exists. 1. There is a growing interest in coarse as well as finer homespun in home-weaving enthusiasts in the USA/Canada and Australia. I would love a wool mattress. . I am searching the net for ideas and found this article. Ha! Gloria: I don’t know how I missed this–I was just going through this thread again, considering the options, and I just wanted to say thanks for the offer! After my bed wares out I am going to try a rope bed. And this doesn’t include shipping. The euro mattresses look like proper mattresses: thick, with squared off sides that will hold a sheet well. I just bought ticking for a straw tick for my winter tent but I will make a wool topper, too, since my neighbour has a small flock and lots of wool. I’ve made new tops and bottoms for them both over the years. If you choose a cotton cord, it would be fairly compostable at the end of its life. and now when he complains about it, i remind him he is stuck with it until death. Because the mattress tends to compress in the middle where one sleeps, the boxpring cannot be flat. I’ve pulled these how-to links out of them for convenience: http://marie.nature.over-blog.fr/article-des-matelas-sains-63392164.html To make a mattress, pick out a fill ... spun and woven all by small businesses in the US or you can buy the blanket fabric by the yard and make your own custom sized blanket. From several months of research, Suffolk is 1 of 2 breeds of sheep which is preferred for mattresses. When my daughter was four, we made do for months with a couple of blow-up camping pads topped with wool blankets. Row 4 + all subsequent rows – Repeat rows 2 and 3 to make the pattern until piece is roughly square. of course, by that time I’ll be 70 something . All I had to do was patch a hole. The allergy mattresses are thin, and look more like futons. I am just now starting to feel the worn-outness. In this process of gathering all the necessary bedding elements it also occurred to me that I might be able to turn the two bags of llama hair in my closet into comforters, so that is where I am now, trying to find someone willing to share their drum carder or any tips on making my own comforters. I sleep on a washable sheepskin rug that I put on a diy bed frame. Its common name is lady’s bedstraw. Food for thought! 5) Here’s an article from the Seattle Times about mattresses in landfills and the problem of recycling conventional mattresses. Thank you for this great article and this great blog! | Sheepy Hollow Farm Life. These people are hardcore: a homemade straw mattress to sit on a cob platform. how to make a mattress out of blankets. If you needed to wash it, then there would be these covers over each layer and you could wash each layer separately. Perhaps it is obsolete. we just replaced our inner-coil king with a latex queen last year (because latex lasts soooo long and the mattress was made here in Portland) and holy crap is that mattress heavy!!! You have to work with the nature of the wool. Border for Any Blanket . Wool has a natural ability to absorb your sweat and heat and you stay relatively cool at night. Adulthood sucks, let's color. Or, if you ever figure out a way to get a French wool mattress here!! I guess the answers in the name, is was and is used as a mattress stuffing, has ant insect properties too to keep the fleas down. The question I have is about the carding. I lived in the Middle East in the late ’60’s and one of the things we had made for us were wool comforters. When my daughter was four, we made do for months with a couple of blow-up camping pads topped with wool blankets. Yay! Never knew the old ones were made of woll, so while reading, i got to wondering…….. What about picking up old wool clothes/suits from the good will?? 701 NE Broadway This way I can rotate the mattresses and easily move them. You need to do it outside because of the dust that comes with the wool. And, of course, don’t forget to sign up for our truly awesome newsletter for regular doses of good advice (or  just a little inspiration). Thank you for some other informative website. They are specialty retailers who sell non-allergic, toxin-free alternative bedding. | Root Simple, The type of wool-stuffed mattress is very old. The cover is made from 6 pieces, adding narrow side pieces around the base and joining them before adding the top pieces to one side only before stuffing. You can see our DIY buckwheat hull mattress burning here: http://openyoureyesbedding.com/pages/flame-testing-101. So I live in Portland and have similar questions. I’ve been focusing on a wool mattress, but if I let go of the wool idea, there are other DIY options. And I do sleep in my hammock whenever it’s not raining or too cold, but my husband is married to the indoors. Place your blanket on top so the bottom and sides of it are aligned with the sheet. If only I could stuff a mattress with all my excess craft materials and abandoned projects and items I mean to repair!!! What about feathers? When mattress sizes get larger, the width is the main thing that changes, because a wider bed … The comments on this post are great, so be sure to read them if you’re researching this subject. Then you upholster them together like you would do for a chair with a dome effect, sewing the burlap over them, applying a thick layer of cotton batting over the whole thing, a new layer of burlap and then sewing the finishing mattress ticking. I’m not saying you’d pee in the hammock here. I’m thinking of using the wool to make ottomans rather than a mattress again. We need a new one, but I’ve been dreading buying a new one. I’d love some wool to do this! I am also fed up with the waste of the mattress business. One of the reasons I choose hulls as my mattress fillings is they have the ability to be re-fluffed in a few seconds without having to take the mattress apart. Hello! For an older child, things get both harder and easier. I bought a wool comforter last year and found that I could not turn over comfortably under it. But a blanket … The second article states that the wool is washed 3 times in hot water 60 degrees with bicarbonate of soda and then soap flakes (which would remove the lanolin) a rinse in water until it runs clear before drying. Often shepherds simply give me their wool rather than sell it to me since they have been throwing it away for years. And the larger point of my comment, other than sharing that cool story- is I wonder if you could use shredded recycled wool? Selecting the best sheets, pillowcases and blankets for your bed is about more than just thread count. And no one is going to come to your house to fluff your wool. We’ve been using an environmentally horrible but quite comfy 15-yo waterbed mattress, but it’s close to dead, and I’d love to find a $1000-ish wool mattress, assuming we could actually maintain it. Pingback: A Homemade Nontoxic Crib Mattress, Part 1: R&D | Odysshe. We then went for an overpriced organic latex mattress (similar to the gentleman above whose wife has the layered one with the zipper. It was common in eighteenth century America and was part of the upholsterer’s trade. Knitting The Wool Mattress Topper. We’re blushing. Sorry I am a year late in replying My website is http://www.OpenYourEyesBedding.com. Check out Making Cotton Mattresses at Home, from the University of Florida’s library collection. Lots of useful pictures. Oh, that’s very sad. As someone who has been trying to make her own shoes with middling success, I can appreciate your “I should try to make this” mentality. I can’t answer these questions for you — all I know is that the type of wool and the length of the staple matter. I take two good quality futon covers, sew one inside the other. anyone with bed bug problems could try rubbing diatomaceous earth around the edges and the seams where they hide- diatomaceous earth is like microscopic razor blades that cut up the exoskeletons of insects and kills them, and yet it’s completely inert. Bet a wool mattress would be really warm and cozy…. I’m very interested in what you come up with. for a similar subject, your web site came up, it seems good. Pingback: Shoemaking Advice? The different methods on this section discuss pros and cons of further carding/turning into wool sheets. If it doesn’t work, I will definitely have to look at the buckwheat hull idea of stuffing our own mattress. I also vacuum it from time to time. When I lived in Japan I saw tatami mat makers using a hand-held sewing machine to sew the edges of a two-inch dense pack of straw. The same mattress but only with about 50 pounds of the wool. Great stuff but you have to keep it dry or reapply it. Sew the two flat sheets together on three sides, inside out, using a 1-inch seam. Apparently from the French website, length and carding of the fibers is paramount for springiness and comfort. I have been looking into these too! I’m glad someone else is considering doing this by hand rather than having it done for them. Since I was introduced to the hammock, I’ve never looked back. Don't just stuff it … .. then again, Who better deserving of a good nights sleep?!?! Intrigued, I ran home to MyBestFriendGoogle and started investigating. I had a bed made in the late 1800’s. or maybe a wool and cotton mix? I believe the traditional mattress made in France may be still made by city mattress in Texas. People who had them used featherbeds in top of their straw ticks. I’m in duluth? You may be creating a new cottage industry in the U.S.A. Go for it! I have two blankets or comforters I got from my great grandparents that’s pure wool with large open flowers outlined with yarn.I’ve looked all over the web and can’t find anything about them. My mother made the job herself once and I will have to do that myself this time. Root Simple is a gathering place for everyone. Some recommended breeds: Texel, Suffolk, Clun Forest, Blanc du Massif Central and Dorset Horn wool. i still could not find what i was looking for and what fit the budget and he went out and purchased one of those horrific foam mattresses…. I’ve made a pillow that I use exclusively and refilled it several times until I was satisfied with the thickness. gonna go see if I can score some fleece now . We have a wool topper over a latex mattress and a wool king comforter. It was clean, local, ecological. Yay! Any ideas? A daybed serves double duty, providing an extra spot for bedding down at night and a seating area during the day. 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