Mattress
![Mattress (MERL 61/242)](https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2017/05/Discover_61.242_Mattress_1.jpg)
This mattress was found walled up in a house in Titchfield, Hampshire, and may date from the seventeenth century or earlier. It consists of thick plaits of three, sewn together and made of Carex, a type of sedge. The underneath is fluffy, like carpet pile, and is probably unfinished. Such mattresses were used either for […]