History of the Divan Bed

The earliest mattresses can be dated back to prehistoric times when humans used pile up leaves, straws and animal skin to sleep on.

Over time, humans have continually updated the mattress, first by using things bags of cloth stuffed with reeds, hay, or wool if you where wealthy in the Egyptian times then pea shucks, straw, or sometimes feathers, stuffed into coarse ticks, and covered with velvets, brocades, or silks throughout the Renaissance.

During the 18th century mattresses started to become more like the mattress you see today with people using natural fibers such as coconut fibre, cotton, wool, and horsehair covered in linen or cotton and then tufted using buttons to attach the stuffing to the cover and finished with stitched edges. The next big step in history for the mattress did not come until the 1930s when the pocket spring unit was created which consist of individual springs sewn into linked fabric bags.

In the late 19th century the “box spring” now more commonly known as the divan base was created which made the mattress less lumpy.