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Bed luxury? Wood was cheap and with basic tools it takes a few hours to make.
by throw63738 5y ago
Bed luxury? Wood was cheap and with basic tools it takes a few hours to make.
- rightbyte 5y agoYe OK beds in general were no luxury. But: "The webbed bases of the beds were made of ropes" Does not sound like cheap 79 AD bed to me.
- spenczar5 5y agoWhy not? Was rope particularly expensive?
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoIt takes a long time to make by hand!
- jasonhansel 5y agoThat's how all beds were made prior to the advent of box springs (or modern mattresses, which don't require a separate box spring). Very old beds still have the hooks necessary to hold up the ropes that supported the mattress.
- verve_rat 5y agoNot wooden slats with straw mattress?
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoI've seen medieval beds in the UK that were a wooden 'tray' (on legs, or built into a wall) and the guides said a hessian bag was filled with straw (dried stems of wheat/corn/barley; straw and hay are often used interchangeably though, so it might have been dried wild grasses) for bedding. I assumed poor people slept on the floor with whatever coverings they could muster. Suspended beds seem very decadent. The stretched fabric, like canvas, over a rectangular frame design seems pretty common and would have surely been a more natural early bed. Similarly hammocks - which I thought were common on ships (at least in the later middle ages). Guess I've discovered I'd like to read a history of beds!